Change of hostname creates OpenOffice problem.

For some reason when I first installed FreeBSD a garbled mix of special characters ended up as the hostname - idk maybe a cat walked across the keyboard whilst I was out of the room. This in turn seemed to create an issue with an app KGpg after boot up - I don't know what KGpg does only that it apparently took issue with some of the symbols in the garbled hostname.

I followed the instructions on this page under "FreeBSD change hostname command" to change the hostname to something normal.

This cured the problem as far as KGpg was concerned but it in turn created a problem with OpenOffice that is reported after boot up even if none of the OpenOffice apps are opened. See attached image. I guess rather like /etc/rc.conf and /etc/hosts some config file of OpenOffice needs modifying to reflect the new hostname. Any ideas where this might be, OpenOffice is a huge package and finding the requisite file by trial and error might take some time?
 

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