diff --git a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
index 78197c6ba9a..8023e132925 100644
--- a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
@@ -542,6 +542,9 @@ Release 2.0.5-beta - UNRELEASED
     HADOOP-9369. DNS#reverseDns() can return hostname with . appended at the
     end. (Karthik Kambatla via atm)
 
+    HADOOP-9379. capture the ulimit info after printing the log to the 
+    console. (Arpit Gupta via suresh)
+
 Release 2.0.4-alpha - UNRELEASED
 
   INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES
diff --git a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/main/bin/hadoop-daemon.sh b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/main/bin/hadoop-daemon.sh
index bf03d195e06..ece40eff24f 100755
--- a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/main/bin/hadoop-daemon.sh
+++ b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/main/bin/hadoop-daemon.sh
@@ -156,6 +156,7 @@ case $startStop in
     esac
     echo $! > $pid
     sleep 1
+    head "$log"
     # capture the ulimit output
     if [ "true" = "$starting_secure_dn" ]; then
       echo "ulimit -a for secure datanode user $HADOOP_SECURE_DN_USER" >> $log
@@ -165,7 +166,6 @@ case $startStop in
       echo "ulimit -a for user $USER" >> $log
       ulimit -a >> $log 2>&1
     fi
-    head -30 "$log"
     sleep 3;
     if ! ps -p $! > /dev/null ; then
       exit 1
diff --git a/hadoop-yarn-project/hadoop-yarn/bin/yarn-daemon.sh b/hadoop-yarn-project/hadoop-yarn/bin/yarn-daemon.sh
index de670facfac..527ae42cfd3 100644
--- a/hadoop-yarn-project/hadoop-yarn/bin/yarn-daemon.sh
+++ b/hadoop-yarn-project/hadoop-yarn/bin/yarn-daemon.sh
@@ -124,10 +124,10 @@ case $startStop in
     nohup nice -n $YARN_NICENESS "$HADOOP_YARN_HOME"/bin/yarn --config $YARN_CONF_DIR $command "$@" > "$log" 2>&1 < /dev/null &
     echo $! > $pid
     sleep 1
+    head "$log"
     # capture the ulimit output
     echo "ulimit -a" >> $log
     ulimit -a >> $log 2>&1
-    head -30 "$log"
     ;;
           
   (stop)