diff --git a/hadoop-mapreduce-project/CHANGES.txt b/hadoop-mapreduce-project/CHANGES.txt
index 74e4073d47..ea7e586da4 100644
--- a/hadoop-mapreduce-project/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/hadoop-mapreduce-project/CHANGES.txt
@@ -1770,6 +1770,9 @@ Release 0.23.0 - Unreleased
     MAPREDUCE-3263. Fixed the MAPREDUCE-3028 commit which broke MR1. (Hitesh
     Shah via acmurthy) 
 
+    MAPREDUCE-3269. Fixed log4j properties to correctly set logging options
+    for JobHistoryServer vis-a-vis JobSummary logs. (mahadev via acmurthy) 
+
 Release 0.22.0 - Unreleased
 
   INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES
diff --git a/hadoop-mapreduce-project/hadoop-yarn/bin/yarn b/hadoop-mapreduce-project/hadoop-yarn/bin/yarn
index 603dd14238..f6d3f157b6 100644
--- a/hadoop-mapreduce-project/hadoop-yarn/bin/yarn
+++ b/hadoop-mapreduce-project/hadoop-yarn/bin/yarn
@@ -176,6 +176,8 @@ if [ "$YARN_LOGFILE" = "" ]; then
   YARN_LOGFILE='yarn.log'
 fi
 
+YARN_JOB_HISTORYSERVER_OPTS="-Dmapred.jobsummary.logger=${YARN_JHS_LOGGER:-INFO,console}"
+
 # restore ordinary behaviour
 unset IFS
 
diff --git a/hadoop-mapreduce-project/hadoop-yarn/bin/yarn-daemon.sh b/hadoop-mapreduce-project/hadoop-yarn/bin/yarn-daemon.sh
index dfd500f520..c3d1724270 100644
--- a/hadoop-mapreduce-project/hadoop-yarn/bin/yarn-daemon.sh
+++ b/hadoop-mapreduce-project/hadoop-yarn/bin/yarn-daemon.sh
@@ -86,6 +86,7 @@ fi
 # some variables
 export YARN_LOGFILE=yarn-$YARN_IDENT_STRING-$command-$HOSTNAME.log
 export YARN_ROOT_LOGGER="INFO,DRFA"
+export YARN_JHS_LOGGER="INFO,JSA"
 log=$YARN_LOG_DIR/yarn-$YARN_IDENT_STRING-$command-$HOSTNAME.out
 pid=$YARN_PID_DIR/yarn-$YARN_IDENT_STRING-$command.pid