changing hostname => errors

From: Pim Vullers (pimvullers_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 10/14/03 

Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2003 15:17:07 +0200

Hello,

During the installation of my linux system I gave it the hostname
'linux'. Now i've got a extra linux pc in my network (hostname: server)
and so I want to change the hostname of the first pc so it doesn't get
confusing. I did this by changing /etc/HOSTNAME. I replaced linux by
woody, the new name I want to use.

But now I get error messages from programs like lpc (and some others).
when I try to run it I get the following message:

root@woody:/home/pim# lpc
Get_local_host: hostname 'woody.localdomain' bad
root@woody:/home/pim#

Has anybody any idea what's going wrong here?? Don't I have a free
choice to choose and change the hostname everytime I want to, or is this
only possible when installing the system? Is there no decent way to
change it afterwards?

My system is a pentium 2 266mhz, 192mb ram, 10GB hd, slackware 9.1.

Could someone help me, please?

With kind regards, 

-- 
Pim 'WWWebMaster' Vullers             ////      http://www.vullersnet.tk
pimvullers@hotmail.com               (@ @)               vullers@home.nl
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