diff --git a/hadoop-assemblies/src/main/resources/assemblies/hadoop-mapreduce-dist.xml b/hadoop-assemblies/src/main/resources/assemblies/hadoop-mapreduce-dist.xml
index 281ce0ddcdd..eed27a88570 100644
--- a/hadoop-assemblies/src/main/resources/assemblies/hadoop-mapreduce-dist.xml
+++ b/hadoop-assemblies/src/main/resources/assemblies/hadoop-mapreduce-dist.xml
@@ -71,6 +71,14 @@
       </includes>
       <fileMode>0755</fileMode>
     </fileSet>
+    <fileSet>
+      <directory>bin</directory>
+      <outputDirectory>sbin</outputDirectory>
+      <includes>
+        <include>mr-jobhistory-daemon.sh</include>
+      </includes>
+      <fileMode>0755</fileMode>
+    </fileSet>
     <fileSet>
       <directory>hadoop-yarn/conf</directory>
       <outputDirectory>etc/hadoop</outputDirectory>
diff --git a/hadoop-mapreduce-project/CHANGES.txt b/hadoop-mapreduce-project/CHANGES.txt
index 8a7ccb4987f..3c3dadedf71 100644
--- a/hadoop-mapreduce-project/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/hadoop-mapreduce-project/CHANGES.txt
@@ -676,6 +676,9 @@ Release 0.23.1 - Unreleased
     MAPREDUCE-3808. Fixed an NPE in FileOutputCommitter for jobs with maps
     but no reduces. (Robert Joseph Evans via vinodkv)
 
+    MAPREDUCE-3354. Changed scripts so that jobhistory server is started by
+    bin/mapred instead of bin/yarn. (Jonathan Eagles via acmurthy) 
+
 Release 0.23.0 - 2011-11-01 
 
   INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES
diff --git a/hadoop-mapreduce-project/INSTALL b/hadoop-mapreduce-project/INSTALL
index 5bc063194b5..cac914bad77 100644
--- a/hadoop-mapreduce-project/INSTALL
+++ b/hadoop-mapreduce-project/INSTALL
@@ -59,12 +59,12 @@ Step 10) sbin/yarn-daemon.sh start resourcemanager
 
 Step 11) sbin/yarn-daemon.sh start nodemanager
 
-Step 12) sbin/yarn-daemon.sh start historyserver
+Step 12) sbin/mr-jobhistory-daemon.sh start historyserver
 
 Step 13) You are all set, an example on how to run a mapreduce job is:
 cd $HADOOP_MAPRED_HOME
 ant examples -Dresolvers=internal 
-$HADOOP_COMMON_HOME/bin/hadoop jar $HADOOP_MAPRED_HOME/build/hadoop-mapreduce-examples-0.23.0-SNAPSHOT.jar randomwriter -Dmapreduce.job.user.name=$USER -Dmapreduce.clientfactory.class.name=org.apache.hadoop.mapred.YarnClientFactory -Dmapreduce.randomwriter.bytespermap=10000 -Ddfs.blocksize=536870912 -Ddfs.block.size=536870912 -libjars $YARN_HOME/modules/hadoop-mapreduce-client-jobclient-0.23.0-SNAPSHOT.jar output 
+$HADOOP_COMMON_HOME/bin/hadoop jar $HADOOP_MAPRED_HOME/build/hadoop-mapreduce-examples-*.jar randomwriter -Dmapreduce.job.user.name=$USER -Dmapreduce.clientfactory.class.name=org.apache.hadoop.mapred.YarnClientFactory -Dmapreduce.randomwriter.bytespermap=10000 -Ddfs.blocksize=536870912 -Ddfs.block.size=536870912 -libjars $YARN_HOME/modules/hadoop-mapreduce-client-jobclient-*.jar output 
 
 The output on the command line should be almost similar to what you see in the JT/TT setup (Hadoop 0.20/0.21)
 
diff --git a/hadoop-mapreduce-project/bin/mapred b/hadoop-mapreduce-project/bin/mapred
index ff1ebbc67df..5ade3dabf43 100755
--- a/hadoop-mapreduce-project/bin/mapred
+++ b/hadoop-mapreduce-project/bin/mapred
@@ -36,6 +36,7 @@ function print_usage(){
   echo "  classpath            prints the class path needed for running"
   echo "                       mapreduce subcommands"
   echo "  groups               get the groups which users belong to"
+  echo "  historyserver        run job history servers as a standalone daemon"
   echo ""
   echo "Most commands print help when invoked w/o parameters."
 }
@@ -48,6 +49,8 @@ fi
 COMMAND=$1
 shift
 
+HADOOP_JOB_HISTORYSERVER_OPTS="-Dmapred.jobsummary.logger=${HADOOP_JHS_LOGGER:-INFO,console}"
+
 if [ "$COMMAND" = "job" ] ; then
   CLASS=org.apache.hadoop.mapred.JobClient
 elif [ "$COMMAND" = "queue" ] ; then
@@ -63,6 +66,9 @@ elif [ "$COMMAND" = "classpath" ] ; then
 elif [ "$COMMAND" = "groups" ] ; then
   CLASS=org.apache.hadoop.mapred.tools.GetGroups
   HADOOP_OPTS="$HADOOP_OPTS $HADOOP_CLIENT_OPTS"
+elif [ "$COMMAND" = "historyserver" ] ; then
+  CLASS=org.apache.hadoop.mapreduce.v2.hs.JobHistoryServer
+  HADOOP_OPTS="$HADOOP_OPTS $HADOOP_JOB_HISTORYSERVER_OPTS"
 elif [ "$COMMAND" = "mradmin" ] \
     || [ "$COMMAND" = "jobtracker" ] \
     || [ "$COMMAND" = "tasktracker" ] ; then
@@ -103,6 +109,11 @@ for f in $HADOOP_MAPRED_HOME/${MAPRED_LIB_JARS_DIR}/*.jar; do
   CLASSPATH=${CLASSPATH}:$f;
 done
 
+# add modules to CLASSPATH
+for f in $HADOOP_MAPRED_HOME/modules/*.jar; do
+  CLASSPATH=${CLASSPATH}:$f;
+done
+
 if $cygwin; then
   CLASSPATH=`cygpath -p -w "$CLASSPATH"`
 fi
@@ -112,12 +123,7 @@ if [ "$COMMAND" = "classpath" ] ; then
   exit
 fi
 
-#turn security logger on the jobtracker
-if [ $COMMAND = "jobtracker" ]; then
-  HADOOP_OPTS="$HADOOP_OPTS -Dhadoop.security.logger=${HADOOP_SECURITY_LOGGER:-INFO,DRFAS}"
-else
-  HADOOP_OPTS="$HADOOP_OPTS -Dhadoop.security.logger=${HADOOP_SECURITY_LOGGER:-INFO,NullAppender}"
-fi
+HADOOP_OPTS="$HADOOP_OPTS -Dhadoop.security.logger=${HADOOP_SECURITY_LOGGER:-INFO,NullAppender}"
 
 export CLASSPATH
 exec "$JAVA" $JAVA_HEAP_MAX $HADOOP_OPTS $CLASS "$@"
diff --git a/hadoop-mapreduce-project/bin/mr-jobhistory-daemon.sh b/hadoop-mapreduce-project/bin/mr-jobhistory-daemon.sh
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..6fc3ee7e863
--- /dev/null
+++ b/hadoop-mapreduce-project/bin/mr-jobhistory-daemon.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,144 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+
+# Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+# contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+# this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+# The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+# (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+# the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#
+#     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+
+
+# Runs a yarn command as a daemon.
+#
+# Environment Variables
+#
+#   YARN_CONF_DIR  Alternate conf dir. Default is ${YARN_HOME}/conf.
+#   YARN_LOG_DIR   Where log files are stored.  PWD by default.
+#   YARN_MASTER    host:path where hadoop code should be rsync'd from
+#   YARN_PID_DIR   The pid files are stored. /tmp by default.
+#   YARN_IDENT_STRING   A string representing this instance of hadoop. $USER by default
+#   YARN_NICENESS The scheduling priority for daemons. Defaults to 0.
+##
+
+usage="Usage: mr-jobhistory-daemon.sh [--config <conf-dir>] [--hosts hostlistfile] (start|stop) <mapred-command> "
+
+# if no args specified, show usage
+if [ $# -le 1 ]; then
+  echo $usage
+  exit 1
+fi
+
+bin=`dirname "${BASH_SOURCE-$0}"`
+bin=`cd "$bin"; pwd`
+
+DEFAULT_LIBEXEC_DIR="$bin"/../libexec
+HADOOP_LIBEXEC_DIR=${HADOOP_LIBEXEC_DIR:-$DEFAULT_LIBEXEC_DIR}
+. $HADOOP_LIBEXEC_DIR/yarn-config.sh
+
+# get arguments
+startStop=$1
+shift
+command=$1
+shift
+
+hadoop_rotate_log ()
+{
+  log=$1;
+  num=5;
+  if [ -n "$2" ]; then
+    num=$2
+  fi
+  if [ -f "$log" ]; then # rotate logs
+    while [ $num -gt 1 ]; do
+      prev=`expr $num - 1`
+      [ -f "$log.$prev" ] && mv "$log.$prev" "$log.$num"
+      num=$prev
+    done
+    mv "$log" "$log.$num";
+  fi
+}
+
+if [ -f "${YARN_CONF_DIR}/yarn-env.sh" ]; then
+  . "${YARN_CONF_DIR}/yarn-env.sh"
+fi
+
+if [ "$YARN_IDENT_STRING" = "" ]; then
+  export YARN_IDENT_STRING="$USER"
+fi
+
+# get log directory
+if [ "$YARN_LOG_DIR" = "" ]; then
+  export YARN_LOG_DIR="$YARN_HOME/logs"
+fi
+mkdir -p "$YARN_LOG_DIR"
+chown $YARN_IDENT_STRING $YARN_LOG_DIR
+
+if [ "$YARN_PID_DIR" = "" ]; then
+  YARN_PID_DIR=/tmp
+fi
+
+# some variables
+export YARN_LOGFILE=yarn-$YARN_IDENT_STRING-$command-$HOSTNAME.log
+export YARN_ROOT_LOGGER=${YARN_ROOT_LOGGER:-INFO,DRFA}
+log=$YARN_LOG_DIR/yarn-$YARN_IDENT_STRING-$command-$HOSTNAME.out
+pid=$YARN_PID_DIR/yarn-$YARN_IDENT_STRING-$command.pid
+
+# Set default scheduling priority
+if [ "$YARN_NICENESS" = "" ]; then
+  export YARN_NICENESS=0
+fi
+
+case $startStop in
+
+  (start)
+
+    mkdir -p "$YARN_PID_DIR"
+
+    if [ -f $pid ]; then
+      if kill -0 `cat $pid` > /dev/null 2>&1; then
+        echo $command running as process `cat $pid`.  Stop it first.
+        exit 1
+      fi
+    fi
+
+    if [ "$YARN_MASTER" != "" ]; then
+      echo rsync from $YARN_MASTER
+      rsync -a -e ssh --delete --exclude=.svn --exclude='logs/*' --exclude='contrib/hod/logs/*' $YARN_MASTER/ "$YARN_HOME"
+    fi
+
+    hadoop_rotate_log $log
+    echo starting $command, logging to $log
+    cd "$YARN_HOME"
+    nohup nice -n $YARN_NICENESS "$YARN_HOME"/bin/mapred --config $YARN_CONF_DIR $command "$@" > "$log" 2>&1 < /dev/null &
+    echo $! > $pid
+    sleep 1; head "$log"
+    ;;
+
+  (stop)
+
+    if [ -f $pid ]; then
+      if kill -0 `cat $pid` > /dev/null 2>&1; then
+        echo stopping $command
+        kill `cat $pid`
+      else
+        echo no $command to stop
+      fi
+    else
+      echo no $command to stop
+    fi
+    ;;
+
+  (*)
+    echo $usage
+    exit 1
+    ;;
+
+esac
diff --git a/hadoop-mapreduce-project/hadoop-yarn/bin/start-yarn.sh b/hadoop-mapreduce-project/hadoop-yarn/bin/start-yarn.sh
index ccd63a44789..40b77fb35ab 100644
--- a/hadoop-mapreduce-project/hadoop-yarn/bin/start-yarn.sh
+++ b/hadoop-mapreduce-project/hadoop-yarn/bin/start-yarn.sh
@@ -31,7 +31,5 @@ HADOOP_LIBEXEC_DIR=${HADOOP_LIBEXEC_DIR:-$DEFAULT_LIBEXEC_DIR}
 "$bin"/yarn-daemon.sh --config $YARN_CONF_DIR  start resourcemanager
 # start nodeManager
 "$bin"/yarn-daemons.sh --config $YARN_CONF_DIR  start nodemanager
-# start historyserver
-#"$bin"/yarn-daemon.sh --config $YARN_CONF_DIR  start historyserver
 # start proxyserver
 #"$bin"/yarn-daemon.sh --config $YARN_CONF_DIR  start proxyserver
diff --git a/hadoop-mapreduce-project/hadoop-yarn/bin/stop-yarn.sh b/hadoop-mapreduce-project/hadoop-yarn/bin/stop-yarn.sh
index c10d1ce7d18..a8498ef3ffd 100644
--- a/hadoop-mapreduce-project/hadoop-yarn/bin/stop-yarn.sh
+++ b/hadoop-mapreduce-project/hadoop-yarn/bin/stop-yarn.sh
@@ -31,7 +31,5 @@ HADOOP_LIBEXEC_DIR=${HADOOP_LIBEXEC_DIR:-$DEFAULT_LIBEXEC_DIR}
 "$bin"/yarn-daemon.sh --config $YARN_CONF_DIR  stop resourcemanager
 # stop nodeManager
 "$bin"/yarn-daemons.sh --config $YARN_CONF_DIR  stop nodemanager
-# stop historyServer
-"$bin"/yarn-daemon.sh --config $YARN_CONF_DIR  stop historyserver
 # stop proxy server
 "$bin"/yarn-daemon.sh --config $YARN_CONF_DIR  stop proxyserver
diff --git a/hadoop-mapreduce-project/hadoop-yarn/bin/yarn b/hadoop-mapreduce-project/hadoop-yarn/bin/yarn
index 7ceac4feae8..d7dae8b8d86 100644
--- a/hadoop-mapreduce-project/hadoop-yarn/bin/yarn
+++ b/hadoop-mapreduce-project/hadoop-yarn/bin/yarn
@@ -59,7 +59,6 @@ if [ $# = 0 ]; then
   echo "where COMMAND is one of:"
   echo "  resourcemanager      run the ResourceManager" 
   echo "  nodemanager          run a nodemanager on each slave" 
-  echo "  historyserver        run job history servers as a standalone daemon"
   echo "  rmadmin              admin tools" 
   echo "  version              print the version"
   echo "  jar <jar>            run a jar file"
@@ -154,8 +153,6 @@ if [ "$YARN_LOGFILE" = "" ]; then
   YARN_LOGFILE='yarn.log'
 fi
 
-YARN_JOB_HISTORYSERVER_OPTS="-Dmapred.jobsummary.logger=${YARN_JHS_LOGGER:-INFO,console}"
-
 # restore ordinary behaviour
 unset IFS
 
@@ -181,9 +178,6 @@ elif [ "$COMMAND" = "nodemanager" ] ; then
   else
     YARN_OPTS="$YARN_OPTS -server $YARN_NODEMANAGER_OPTS"
   fi
-elif [ "$COMMAND" = "historyserver" ] ; then
-  CLASS=org.apache.hadoop.mapreduce.v2.hs.JobHistoryServer
-  YARN_OPTS="$YARN_OPTS $YARN_JOB_HISTORYSERVER_OPTS"
 elif [ "$COMMAND" = "proxyserver" ] ; then
   CLASS='org.apache.hadoop.yarn.server.webproxy.WebAppProxyServer'
   YARN_OPTS="$YARN_OPTS $YARN_PROXYSERVER_OPTS"
diff --git a/hadoop-mapreduce-project/hadoop-yarn/bin/yarn-daemon.sh b/hadoop-mapreduce-project/hadoop-yarn/bin/yarn-daemon.sh
index 1fa43d8b1b2..c36e99cac70 100644
--- a/hadoop-mapreduce-project/hadoop-yarn/bin/yarn-daemon.sh
+++ b/hadoop-mapreduce-project/hadoop-yarn/bin/yarn-daemon.sh
@@ -91,7 +91,6 @@ fi
 # some variables
 export YARN_LOGFILE=yarn-$YARN_IDENT_STRING-$command-$HOSTNAME.log
 export YARN_ROOT_LOGGER=${YARN_ROOT_LOGGER:-INFO,DRFA}
-export YARN_JHS_LOGGER=${YARN_JHS_LOGGER:-INFO,JSA}
 log=$YARN_LOG_DIR/yarn-$YARN_IDENT_STRING-$command-$HOSTNAME.out
 pid=$YARN_PID_DIR/yarn-$YARN_IDENT_STRING-$command.pid
 
diff --git a/hadoop-mapreduce-project/hadoop-yarn/hadoop-yarn-site/src/site/apt/ClusterSetup.apt.vm b/hadoop-mapreduce-project/hadoop-yarn/hadoop-yarn-site/src/site/apt/ClusterSetup.apt.vm
index 0290c23b8ae..67db4b13aea 100644
--- a/hadoop-mapreduce-project/hadoop-yarn/hadoop-yarn-site/src/site/apt/ClusterSetup.apt.vm
+++ b/hadoop-mapreduce-project/hadoop-yarn/hadoop-yarn-site/src/site/apt/ClusterSetup.apt.vm
@@ -476,7 +476,7 @@ Hadoop MapReduce Next Generation - Cluster Setup
     designated server:
   
 ----
-  $ $YARN_HOME/bin/yarn start historyserver --config $HADOOP_CONF_DIR  
+  $ $YARN_HOME/bin/mapred start historyserver --config $YARN_CONF_DIR  
 ----    	  
 
     * Hadoop Shutdown      
@@ -519,7 +519,7 @@ Hadoop MapReduce Next Generation - Cluster Setup
     designated server:
   
 ----
-  $ $YARN_HOME/bin/yarn stop historyserver --config $HADOOP_CONF_DIR  
+  $ $YARN_HOME/bin/mapred stop historyserver --config $YARN_CONF_DIR  
 ----    	  
 
     
@@ -1020,7 +1020,7 @@ KVNO Timestamp         Principal
     designated server as <mapred>:
   
 ----
-[mapred]$ $YARN_HOME/bin/yarn start historyserver --config $HADOOP_CONF_DIR  
+[mapred]$ $YARN_HOME/bin/mapred start historyserver --config $YARN_CONF_DIR  
 ----    	  
 
     * Hadoop Shutdown      
@@ -1063,7 +1063,7 @@ KVNO Timestamp         Principal
     designated server as <mapred>:
 
 ----
-[mapred]$ $YARN_HOME/bin/yarn stop historyserver --config $HADOOP_CONF_DIR  
+[mapred]$ $YARN_HOME/bin/mapred stop historyserver --config $YARN_CONF_DIR  
 ----    	  
     
 * {Web Interfaces}