diff --git a/CHANGES.txt b/CHANGES.txt
index 6f9dbb8673b..36801fd2afe 100644
--- a/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/CHANGES.txt
@@ -56,6 +56,8 @@ Release 0.20.0 - Unreleased
    HBASE-1277  HStoreKey: Wrong comparator logic (Evgeny Ryabitskiy)
    HBASE-1275  TestTable.testCreateTable broken (Ryan Rawson via Stack)
    HBASE-1274  TestMergeTable is broken in Hudson (Nitay Joffe via Stack)
+   HBASE-1283  thrift's package descrpition needs to update for start/stop
+               procedure (Rong-en Fan via Stack)
 
   IMPROVEMENTS
    HBASE-1089  Add count of regions on filesystem to master UI; add percentage
diff --git a/src/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/thrift/package.html b/src/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/thrift/package.html
index ddf173b1a30..f1aad6c71b3 100644
--- a/src/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/thrift/package.html
+++ b/src/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/thrift/package.html
@@ -65,11 +65,17 @@ under the hbase/lib directory.
 <p>The version of Thrift used to generate the Java files is release 20080411p1 from
 the <a href="http://developers.facebook.com/thrift/">thrift homepage</a>.</p>
 
-<p>The ThriftServer is run like:
+<p>To start ThriftServer, use:
 <pre>
-  ./bin/hbase thrift -h|--help | [--port=PORT] start
+  ./bin/hbase-daemon.sh start thrift [--port=PORT]
 </pre>
 The default port is 9090.
 </p>
+
+<p>To stop, use:
+<pre>
+  ./bin/hbase-daemon.sh stop thrift
+</pre>
+</p>
 </body>
 </html>