Cant open nginx.conf file via sudo mate command in Linode Ubuntu 10.04 box

Question

when we run sudo mate /opt/nginx/conf/nginx.conf we get two different errors

sudo: unable to resolve host myhost

sudo: mate: command not found

how can we get this file to open? sudo mate wont open it

Answer 1

mate is a command installed by Textmate, which is an OS X app, not a Linux one. You need to use something like emacs or vim or nano to edit files on your Linode instance.

Answer 2

The first error is because you haven't defined your hostname properly, if you wish to know how to do that you can find out here.

Second is because you don't have mate installed, try running the following instead:

sudo nano /opt/nginx/conf/nginx.conf