diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 56853db35c19068a0d57dc7bc89ea877b2801463..6d05a3cb5fd5ac00aa1451baf1f2770261fa59f7 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -1,6 +1,9 @@
 This file describes changes in recent versions of SLURM. It primarily
 documents those changes that are of interest to users and admins. 
 
+* Changes in SLURM 0.3.0.0-pre9 (not tagged yet)
+===============================
+
 * Changes in SLURM 0.3.0.0-pre8
 ===============================
  -- Queue outgoing message traffic rather than immediately spawning 
diff --git a/doc/man/man5/slurm.conf.5 b/doc/man/man5/slurm.conf.5
index 14a0eba62fb1dac91261db83e7eae7407b052c2b..c932176206c8feb17a6a1ba31ae32730a1de48ea 100644
--- a/doc/man/man5/slurm.conf.5
+++ b/doc/man/man5/slurm.conf.5
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.TH "slurm.conf" "5" "February 2004" "Morris Jette" "Slurm configuration file"
+.TH "slurm.conf" "5" "March 2004" "Morris Jette" "Slurm configuration file"
 .SH "NAME"
 slurm.conf \- Slurm configuration file 
 .SH "DESCRIPTION"
@@ -273,9 +273,10 @@ The default value is 300 seconds.
 A value of zero indicates the node should never be set DOWN if not respnding.
 .TP
 \fBStateSaveLocation\fR
-Fully qualified pathname of a directory into which the slurm controller, 
-\fBslurmctld\fR, saves its state (e.g. "/usr/local/slurm/checkpoint"). SLURM 
-state will saved here to recover from system failures. 
+Fully qualified pathname of a directory into which the SLURM controller, 
+\fBslurmctld\fR, saves its state (e.g. "/usr/local/slurm/checkpoint"). 
+SLURM state will saved here to recover from system failures.
+\fBSlurmUser\fR must be able to create files in this directory. 
 The default value is "/tmp".
 If any slurm daemons terminate abnormally, their core files will also be written 
 into this directory.