diff --git a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
index 96419969768..46752a50c4a 100644
--- a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
@@ -597,6 +597,9 @@ Release 0.23.0 - Unreleased
     HADOOP-7637. Fix to include FairScheduler configuration file in
     RPM. (Eric Yang via ddas)
 
+    HADOOP-7633. Adds log4j.properties to the hadoop-conf dir on
+    deploy (Eric Yang via ddas)
+
 Release 0.22.0 - Unreleased
 
   INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES
diff --git a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/main/packages/hadoop-setup-conf.sh b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/main/packages/hadoop-setup-conf.sh
index 64a8d57db8a..8e903cf308d 100644
--- a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/main/packages/hadoop-setup-conf.sh
+++ b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/main/packages/hadoop-setup-conf.sh
@@ -477,6 +477,9 @@ else
   if [ ! -e ${HADOOP_CONF_DIR}/capacity-scheduler.xml ]; then
     template_generator ${HADOOP_PREFIX}/share/hadoop/templates/conf/capacity-scheduler.xml ${HADOOP_CONF_DIR}/capacity-scheduler.xml
   fi
+  if [ ! -e ${HADOOP_CONF_DIR}/log4j.properties ]; then
+    cp ${HADOOP_PREFIX}/share/hadoop/common/templates/conf/log4j.properties ${HADOOP_CONF_DIR}/log4j.properties
+  fi
   
   chown root:${HADOOP_GROUP} ${HADOOP_CONF_DIR}/hadoop-env.sh
   chmod 755 ${HADOOP_CONF_DIR}/hadoop-env.sh