diff --git a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/CHANGES.txt b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/CHANGES.txt
index 225641c631..377efa5748 100644
--- a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/CHANGES.txt
@@ -716,6 +716,9 @@ Release 0.23.2 - UNRELEASED
 
     HDFS-3104. Add tests for HADOOP-8175. (Daryn Sharp via szetszwo)
 
+    HDFS-3066. Cap space usage of default log4j rolling policy.
+    (Patrick Hunt via eli)
+
   OPTIMIZATIONS
 
   BUG FIXES
diff --git a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/main/bin/hdfs b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/main/bin/hdfs
index 9bcff9d418..fb409f3170 100755
--- a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/main/bin/hdfs
+++ b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/main/bin/hdfs
@@ -120,7 +120,7 @@ export CLASSPATH=$CLASSPATH
 
 #turn security logger on the namenode
 if [ $COMMAND = "namenode" ]; then
-  HADOOP_OPTS="$HADOOP_OPTS -Dhadoop.security.logger=${HADOOP_SECURITY_LOGGER:-INFO,DRFAS}"
+  HADOOP_OPTS="$HADOOP_OPTS -Dhadoop.security.logger=${HADOOP_SECURITY_LOGGER:-INFO,RFAS}"
 else
   HADOOP_OPTS="$HADOOP_OPTS -Dhadoop.security.logger=${HADOOP_SECURITY_LOGGER:-INFO,NullAppender}"
 fi