system name and some other problems

[george_currums]

ive got a few problems....

i want to change the name of my system....

i edit /etc/hosts appropriately, but when i try to start apache or proftpd i get errors about the host name etc, if i change back to the old system/host name, it works fine...

ive emerged samba, and configured it.

when trying to run smbd, i get the following error:

lpstat: Unable to connect to server: Connect refused

and one more thing...

ive emerged the new Phoenix ebuild, and i need to install flash.

ive emerged netscape-flash, is there anything i need to do after that as flash still dosnt work.

thank you,

George,

[phong]

You want to edit both /etc/hosts and /etc/hostname. Also, after editing those, you'll want to do /etc/init.d/hostname restart. If that doesn't do the trick, try rebooting.
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