diff --git a/hadoop-yarn-project/CHANGES.txt b/hadoop-yarn-project/CHANGES.txt
index 948f3d91829..27cf02c4181 100644
--- a/hadoop-yarn-project/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/hadoop-yarn-project/CHANGES.txt
@@ -102,6 +102,9 @@ Release 2.2.1 - UNRELEASED
     YARN-1259. In Fair Scheduler web UI, queue num pending and num active apps
     switched. (Robert Kanter via Sandy Ryza)
 
+    YARN-1295. In UnixLocalWrapperScriptBuilder, using bash -c can cause Text
+    file busy errors (Sandy Ryza)
+
 Release 2.2.0 - 2013-10-13
 
   INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES
diff --git a/hadoop-yarn-project/hadoop-yarn/hadoop-yarn-server/hadoop-yarn-server-nodemanager/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/yarn/server/nodemanager/DefaultContainerExecutor.java b/hadoop-yarn-project/hadoop-yarn/hadoop-yarn-server/hadoop-yarn-server-nodemanager/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/yarn/server/nodemanager/DefaultContainerExecutor.java
index 348714564fe..507f7a04931 100644
--- a/hadoop-yarn-project/hadoop-yarn/hadoop-yarn-server/hadoop-yarn-server-nodemanager/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/yarn/server/nodemanager/DefaultContainerExecutor.java
+++ b/hadoop-yarn-project/hadoop-yarn/hadoop-yarn-server/hadoop-yarn-server-nodemanager/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/yarn/server/nodemanager/DefaultContainerExecutor.java
@@ -277,7 +277,7 @@ public class DefaultContainerExecutor extends ContainerExecutor {
       pout.println("echo $$ > " + pidFile.toString() + ".tmp");
       pout.println("/bin/mv -f " + pidFile.toString() + ".tmp " + pidFile);
       String exec = Shell.isSetsidAvailable? "exec setsid" : "exec";
-      pout.println(exec + " /bin/bash -c \"" +
+      pout.println(exec + " /bin/bash \"" +
         launchDst.toUri().getPath().toString() + "\"");
     }
   }