diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 44bed7445f007c9c587702b6db4c726addc8e0da..584babcaae74ad085014d5592edeaac79afcb0aa 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 0.5.0-pre5
+=============================
+
 * Changes in SLURM 0.5.0-pre4
 =============================
  -- Fix bug in slurmd that could double KillWait time on job timeout.
diff --git a/src/slurmd/slurmd.c b/src/slurmd/slurmd.c
index 7fa9e292639789dc820d4fd79d477e4bdf6e1a0e..304aec01ae30516f3170eae550705ad905388f2e 100644
--- a/src/slurmd/slurmd.c
+++ b/src/slurmd/slurmd.c
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 /*****************************************************************************\
- * src/slurmd/slurmd.c - main slurm node server daemon
- * $Id$
+ *  src/slurmd/slurmd.c - main slurm node server daemon
+ *  $Id$
  *****************************************************************************
  *  Copyright (C) 2002 The Regents of the University of California.
  *  Produced at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (cf, DISCLAIMER).
@@ -489,7 +489,7 @@ _read_config()
 
 	if ( (conf->node_name == NULL) ||
 	     (conf->node_name[0] == '\0') )
-		fatal("Node name is empty");
+		fatal("Node name lookup failure");
  
 	if ( (conf->cf.control_addr == NULL) || 
 	     (conf->cf.slurmctld_port == 0)    )