diff --git a/hadoop-mapreduce-project/CHANGES.txt b/hadoop-mapreduce-project/CHANGES.txt
index cf1c7d1696..1eb0807404 100644
--- a/hadoop-mapreduce-project/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/hadoop-mapreduce-project/CHANGES.txt
@@ -1700,6 +1700,9 @@ Release 0.23.0 - Unreleased
     MAPREDUCE-3208. Fix NPE task/container log appenders. (liangzhwa via
     acmurthy) 
 
+    MAPREDUCE-3212. Fix usage/help message for bin/yarn. (Bhallamudi Venkata 
+    Siva Kamesh 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 08bf5674d3..603dd14238 100644
--- a/hadoop-mapreduce-project/hadoop-yarn/bin/yarn
+++ b/hadoop-mapreduce-project/hadoop-yarn/bin/yarn
@@ -53,7 +53,7 @@ esac
 
 # if no args specified, show usage
 if [ $# = 0 ]; then
-  echo "Usage: hadoop [--config confdir] COMMAND"
+  echo "Usage: yarn [--config confdir] COMMAND"
   echo "where COMMAND is one of:"
   echo "  resourcemanager      run the ResourceManager" 
   echo "  nodemanager          run a nodemanager on each slave"