I just signed up and I have been following the steps in

http://library.linode.com/getting-started/

and using WinSCP/Putty to login

I'm not sure how to do the step that says

"You'll also want to make sure proper entries for your Linode's fully qualified domain name (FQDN) and localhost are set up in your /etc/hosts file. You can use the following example file, modifying the entries to suit your setup (12.34.56.78 should be replaced with your Linode's IP address):"

When I browse the etc directory through WinSCP, I don't appear to have a hosts file

But when I do: grep "127.0.0.1" /etc/hosts, it returns: 127.0.0.1 localhost

How do I get to and edit the /etc/hosts file?

now resolved

I was looking for a folder called "hosts" when the file is listed further down!