diff --git a/net/tor-hs/files/tor-hs.init b/net/tor-hs/files/tor-hs.init
index aab531b1ca4a7..30e3a13c79f47 100755
--- a/net/tor-hs/files/tor-hs.init
+++ b/net/tor-hs/files/tor-hs.init
@@ -75,14 +75,14 @@ parse_hs_conf_hooks() {
 	local name hook_script enable_hs hostname_file
 	local config="$1"
 
-	config_get enable_hs "$config" Enabled 0
+	config_get_bool enable_hs "$config" Enabled 0
 	config_get hook_script "$config" HookScript
 	config_get name "$config" Name
 
 	hostname="$HS_DIR_PATH/$name/hostname"
 
 	# check if we should run hook_script
-	if [ "$enable_hs" = "true" ] && [ -x "$hook_script" ] && [ -f "$hostname" ] ; then
+	if [ "$enable_hs" = "1" ] && [ -x "$hook_script" ] && [ -f "$hostname" ] ; then
 		hostname_uri=$(cat "$hostname")
 		# call hook script
 		$hook_script "--update-onion" "$hostname_uri"