When I installed Ubuntu I named my computer "test"

after the installation was finished, I renamed the hostname to somewhat nicer:

sudo hostname silversurfer

And I added the hostname to /etc/hosts

But still even after a reboot, in syslog all messages are preceeded by "test":

tail -f /var/log/syslog

Feb 24 04:51:28 test ntpd[4598]: peers refreshed

Feb 24 04:51:28 test ntpd[4598]: Listening on routing socket on fd #24 for interface updates

...

My /etc/hosts/ looks like this:

127.0.0.1   localhost

127.0.1.1   test silversurfer



# The following lines are desirable for IPv6 capable hosts

::1     ip6-localhost ip6-loopback

fe00::0 ip6-localnet

ff00::0 ip6-mcastprefix

ff02::1 ip6-allnodes

ff02::2 ip6-allrouters