setting hostname...

[Volker Kindermann]

> Now to my question (and the reason I feel stupid): I named my computer
> "al-djabr" first, but decided to change to "al-khwarizmi", in honour 
> of the late, great arabic mathematician. My domain is 
> "intra.arrhythmetic.net", so the hostname would be 
> "al-khwarizmi.intra.arrhythmetic.net"...I put this in /etc/rc.conf, of
> course, and sure enough, the system seems to think it's named 
> according to my rc.conf-wishes... 
>  
> When X starts, though, it complains that -  and I quote -  
> "Can't get own host name. Your system is severely misconfigured". 

is the old name still in /etc/hosts?

 -volker