diff --git a/hadoop-mapreduce-project/CHANGES.txt b/hadoop-mapreduce-project/CHANGES.txt
index de3f926161..657b4414dc 100644
--- a/hadoop-mapreduce-project/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/hadoop-mapreduce-project/CHANGES.txt
@@ -94,6 +94,8 @@ Trunk (Unreleased)
     MAPREDUCE-6013. [post-HADOOP-9902] mapred version is missing (Akira AJISAKA
     via aw)
 
+    MAPREDUCE-6250. deprecate sbin/mr-jobhistory-daemon.sh (aw)
+
   BUG FIXES
 
     MAPREDUCE-6191. Improve clearing stale state of Java serialization
diff --git a/hadoop-mapreduce-project/bin/mr-jobhistory-daemon.sh b/hadoop-mapreduce-project/bin/mr-jobhistory-daemon.sh
index 7f6e6f1db6..abc70d9736 100644
--- a/hadoop-mapreduce-project/bin/mr-jobhistory-daemon.sh
+++ b/hadoop-mapreduce-project/bin/mr-jobhistory-daemon.sh
@@ -42,5 +42,8 @@ fi
 daemonmode=$1
 shift
 
+hadoop_error "WARNING: Use of this script to ${daemonmode} the MR JobHistory daemon is deprecated."
+hadoop_error "WARNING: Attempting to execute replacement \"mapred --daemon ${daemonmode}\" instead."
+
 exec "${HADOOP_MAPRED_HOME}/bin/mapred" \
 --config "${HADOOP_CONF_DIR}" --daemon "${daemonmode}" "$@"