diff --git a/conf.d/killprocs b/conf.d/killprocs
index 0cf10d0d..76a2bc9c 100644
--- a/conf.d/killprocs
+++ b/conf.d/killprocs
@@ -1,3 +1,6 @@
-# If you wish to pass any options to killall5 during shutdown,
+# If you wish to pass any options to kill_all during shutdown,
 # you should do so here.
+#
+# The setting is called killall5_opts because the options here are meant
+# to be identical to those you could pass to killall5.
 killall5_opts=""
diff --git a/init.d/killprocs.in b/init.d/killprocs.in
index d1409c51..fcf1364d 100644
--- a/init.d/killprocs.in
+++ b/init.d/killprocs.in
@@ -19,9 +19,9 @@ depend()
 start()
 {
 	ebegin "Terminating remaining processes"
-	killall5 -15 ${killall5_opts}
+	kill_all 15 ${killall5_opts}
 	eend 0
 	ebegin "Killing remaining processes"
-	killall5 -9 ${killall5_opts}
+	kill_all 9 ${killall5_opts}
 	eend 0
 }