diff --git a/hadoop-mapreduce-project/bin/start-mapred.sh b/hadoop-mapreduce-project/bin/start-mapred.sh
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index d511aacbc2..0000000000
--- a/hadoop-mapreduce-project/bin/start-mapred.sh
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-#!/usr/bin/env bash
-
-# Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
-# contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
-# this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
-# The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
-# (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
-# the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
-#
-#     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
-#
-# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
-# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
-# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
-# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
-# limitations under the License.
-
-
-# Start hadoop map reduce daemons.  Run this on master node.
-
-bin=`dirname "${BASH_SOURCE-$0}"`
-bin=`cd "$bin"; pwd`
-
-if [ -e $bin/../libexec/mapred-config.sh ]; then
-  . $bin/../libexec/mapred-config.sh
-else
-  . "$bin/mapred-config.sh"
-fi
-
-
-# start mapred daemons
-# start jobtracker first to minimize connection errors at startup
-"$HADOOP_PREFIX"/bin/hadoop-daemon.sh --config $HADOOP_CONF_DIR --script "$bin"/mapred start jobtracker
-"$HADOOP_PREFIX"/bin/hadoop-daemons.sh --config $HADOOP_CONF_DIR --script "$bin"/mapred start tasktracker
diff --git a/hadoop-mapreduce-project/bin/stop-mapred.sh b/hadoop-mapreduce-project/bin/stop-mapred.sh
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-#!/usr/bin/env bash
-
-# Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
-# contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
-# this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
-# The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
-# (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
-# the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
-#
-#     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
-#
-# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
-# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
-# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
-# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
-# limitations under the License.
-
-
-# Stop hadoop map reduce daemons.  Run this on master node.
-
-bin=`dirname "${BASH_SOURCE-$0}"`
-bin=`cd "$bin"; pwd`
-
-if [ -e $bin/../libexec/mapred-config.sh ]; then
-  . $bin/../libexec/mapred-config.sh
-else
-  . "$bin/mapred-config.sh"
-fi
-
-"$HADOOP_PREFIX"/bin/hadoop-daemon.sh --config $HADOOP_CONF_DIR --script "$bin"/mapred stop jobtracker
-"$HADOOP_PREFIX"/bin/hadoop-daemons.sh --config $HADOOP_CONF_DIR --script "$bin"/mapred stop tasktracker