Run an action in a bootstrap script after ResourceManager has started

I am starting an AWS EMR cluster using the amazon aws cli tools. I have a boostrap action that runs on the master and runs the following command

    hdfs dfs -put /home/hadoop/X.tar.gz /

However I get the following error

    put: Call From X.internal/X1 to X.internal:9000 failed on connection exception: java.net.ConnectException: Connection refused; For more details see:  http://ift.tt/1n4B3Pk

However, once the cluster is up (this error does not cause the startup to fail), i can run the above command successfully.

How can i run hdfs commands in the bootstrap script?