diff --git a/hadoop-mapreduce-project/hadoop-mapreduce-examples/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/examples/terasort/TeraGen.java b/hadoop-mapreduce-project/hadoop-mapreduce-examples/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/examples/terasort/TeraGen.java
index d7d751a6f6f..22fe3443275 100644
--- a/hadoop-mapreduce-project/hadoop-mapreduce-examples/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/examples/terasort/TeraGen.java
+++ b/hadoop-mapreduce-project/hadoop-mapreduce-examples/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/examples/terasort/TeraGen.java
@@ -66,7 +66,7 @@
  * <b>bin/hadoop jar hadoop-*-examples.jar teragen 10000000000 in-dir</b>
  */
 public class TeraGen extends Configured implements Tool {
-  private static final Log LOG = LogFactory.getLog(TeraSort.class);
+  private static final Log LOG = LogFactory.getLog(TeraGen.class);
 
   public static enum Counters {CHECKSUM}