diff --git a/orte/mca/pls/slurm/help-pls-slurm.txt b/orte/mca/pls/slurm/help-pls-slurm.txt
index c57f0a1541..1e82574047 100644
--- a/orte/mca/pls/slurm/help-pls-slurm.txt
+++ b/orte/mca/pls/slurm/help-pls-slurm.txt
@@ -14,8 +14,6 @@
 # 
 # $HEADER$
 #
-# This is the US/English general help file for Open RTE's orterun.
-#
 [multiple-prefixes]
 The SLURM process starter for Open MPI does not support multiple
 different --prefix options to mpirun.  You can specify at most one
@@ -26,9 +24,9 @@ parallel job.
 Put simply, you must have Open MPI installed in the same location on
 all of your SLURM nodes.
 
-Multiple different --prefix options were specified to mpirun; this is
+Multiple different --prefix options were specified to mpirun.  This is
 a fatal error for the SLURM process starter in Open MPI.
 
-Two prefix values supplied were:
+The first two prefix values supplied were:
     %s
 and %s
diff --git a/orte/mca/pls/slurm/pls_slurm_module.c b/orte/mca/pls/slurm/pls_slurm_module.c
index 27f32dfdfa..56ad747588 100644
--- a/orte/mca/pls/slurm/pls_slurm_module.c
+++ b/orte/mca/pls/slurm/pls_slurm_module.c
@@ -312,7 +312,7 @@ static int pls_slurm_launch(orte_jobid_t jobid)
                 if (NULL == cur_prefix) {
                     cur_prefix = strdup(map->app->prefix_dir);
                     if (mca_pls_slurm_component.debug) {
-                        opal_output (0, "pls:slurm: Set prefix:%s\n",
+                        opal_output (0, "pls:slurm: Set prefix:%s",
                                      cur_prefix);
                     }
                 }