diff --git a/bin/hbase b/bin/hbase
index 0a51b63b354..62025f2c156 100755
--- a/bin/hbase
+++ b/bin/hbase
@@ -321,7 +321,7 @@ elif [ "$COMMAND" = "clean" ] ; then
     echo "        --cleanAll  cleans hbase related data from both zookeeper and hdfs."
     exit 1;
   fi
-  "$bin"/hbase-cleanup.sh $@
+  "$bin"/hbase-cleanup.sh --config ${HBASE_CONF_DIR} $@
   exit $?
 
 elif [ "$COMMAND" = "classpath" ] ; then
diff --git a/bin/hbase-cleanup.sh b/bin/hbase-cleanup.sh
index 85f5c881ce4..1c7e0fcd76c 100644
--- a/bin/hbase-cleanup.sh
+++ b/bin/hbase-cleanup.sh
@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ fi
 
 format_option=$1;
 
-distMode=`$bin/hbase org.apache.hadoop.hbase.util.HBaseConfTool hbase.cluster.distributed | head -n 1`
+distMode=`$bin/hbase --config ${HBASE_CONF_DIR} org.apache.hadoop.hbase.util.HBaseConfTool hbase.cluster.distributed | head -n 1`
 
 if [ "$distMode" == 'false' ];then
   echo "Skipping hbase data clearing in standalone mode." 2>&1