diff --git a/scrapy/cmdline.py b/scrapy/cmdline.py
index 9706828ed..134d88bb0 100644
--- a/scrapy/cmdline.py
+++ b/scrapy/cmdline.py
@@ -89,7 +89,7 @@ def _check_deprecated_scrapy_ctl(argv, inproject):
             with open(cfg_path, 'w') as f:
                 f.write("# generated automatically - feel free to edit" + os.linesep)
                 f.write("[settings]" + os.linesep)
-                f.write("default = %s" % settings.settings_module_path + os.linesep)
+                f.write("default = %s" % settings.settings_module.__name__ + os.linesep)
 
 def _run_print_help(parser, func, *a, **kw):
     try: