diff --git a/hadoop-mapreduce-project/CHANGES.txt b/hadoop-mapreduce-project/CHANGES.txt
index 08b72e19a2..06afd83a19 100644
--- a/hadoop-mapreduce-project/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/hadoop-mapreduce-project/CHANGES.txt
@@ -228,6 +228,9 @@ Release 0.23.2 - UNRELEASED
     MAPREDUCE-4043. Secret keys set in Credentials are not seen by tasks
     (Jason Lowe via bobby) 
 
+    MAPREDUCE-3989. Cap space usage of default log4j rolling policy.
+    (Patrick Hunt via eli)
+
   OPTIMIZATIONS
 
     MAPREDUCE-3901. Modified JobHistory records in YARN to lazily load job and
diff --git a/hadoop-mapreduce-project/bin/mr-jobhistory-daemon.sh b/hadoop-mapreduce-project/bin/mr-jobhistory-daemon.sh
index 2272ae9564..4cd6eb1ec8 100644
--- a/hadoop-mapreduce-project/bin/mr-jobhistory-daemon.sh
+++ b/hadoop-mapreduce-project/bin/mr-jobhistory-daemon.sh
@@ -90,7 +90,7 @@ fi
 
 # some variables
 export HADOOP_LOGFILE=yarn-$YARN_IDENT_STRING-$command-$HOSTNAME.log
-export HADOOP_ROOT_LOGGER=${HADOOP_ROOT_LOGGER:-INFO,DRFA}
+export HADOOP_ROOT_LOGGER=${HADOOP_ROOT_LOGGER:-INFO,RFA}
 export HADOOP_JHS_LOGGER=${HADOOP_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
diff --git a/hadoop-mapreduce-project/hadoop-yarn/bin/yarn-daemon.sh b/hadoop-mapreduce-project/hadoop-yarn/bin/yarn-daemon.sh
index c36e99cac7..89ae9d87be 100644
--- a/hadoop-mapreduce-project/hadoop-yarn/bin/yarn-daemon.sh
+++ b/hadoop-mapreduce-project/hadoop-yarn/bin/yarn-daemon.sh
@@ -90,7 +90,7 @@ fi
 
 # some variables
 export YARN_LOGFILE=yarn-$YARN_IDENT_STRING-$command-$HOSTNAME.log
-export YARN_ROOT_LOGGER=${YARN_ROOT_LOGGER:-INFO,DRFA}
+export YARN_ROOT_LOGGER=${YARN_ROOT_LOGGER:-INFO,RFA}
 log=$YARN_LOG_DIR/yarn-$YARN_IDENT_STRING-$command-$HOSTNAME.out
 pid=$YARN_PID_DIR/yarn-$YARN_IDENT_STRING-$command.pid