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I’m connected to my shared hosting server via ssh, and all I know is that it’s under Linux. I tried commands like: cat /etc/issue/ and lsb_release -a but got: 

$ cat /etc/issue/
No such file or directory

$ lsb_release -a
-bash: lsb_release: command not found

and uname -a only gives : Linux .......secureserver.net 2.6.32-673.8.1.lve1.4.3.el6.x86_64 #1 SMP Wed Feb 10 08:57:30 EST 2016 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

gcc -v gives:

Using built-in specs. Target: x86_64-redhat-linux Configured with:
../configure --prefix=/usr --mandir=/usr/share/man
--infodir=/usr/share/info --with-bugurl=http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla --enable-bootstrap --enable-shared --enable-threads=posix --enable-checking=release --with-system-zlib --enable-__cxa_atexit --disable-libunwind-exceptions --enable-gnu-unique-object --enable-languages=c,c++,objc,obj-c++,java,fortran,ada --enable-java-awt=gtk --disable-dssi --with-java-home=/usr/lib/jvm/java-1.5.0-gcj-1.5.0.0/jre --enable-libgcj-multifile --enable-java-maintainer-mode --with-ecj-jar=/usr/share/java/eclipse-ecj.jar --disable-libjava-multilib --with-ppl --with-cloog --with-tune=generic --with-arch_32=i686 --build=x86_64-redhat-linux Thread model: posix gcc version 4.4.7 20120313 (Red Hat 4.4.7-16) (GCC)
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  • Every distro has it's own way of figuring out what it is. Might also try doing cat /etc/*-release in case it's a RH-oriented distro. First step would be to figure out what package management it's using so as to narrow the field of possibilities. – Bratchley Jul 05 '16 at 00:22
  • cat: /etc/*-release: No such file or directory – Hamza Jul 05 '16 at 00:23
  • Actually I take that back, your kernel version has el6 in it. That means it's either RHEL6 or CentOS 6. Red Hat is the only major distro that I'm aware of that puts their brand in the kernel version string. – Bratchley Jul 05 '16 at 00:24
  • Either they've removed the /etc/redhat-release file or something else is amiss: For example – Bratchley Jul 05 '16 at 00:25
  • Is this a Cisco VM per chance? They use RHEL as their base but for some reason remove random bits of branding out of it (maybe legal reasons I don't know). – Bratchley Jul 05 '16 at 00:26
  • I'm sorry I don't know, all I know it's that is a Godaddy shared hosting running Apache. – Hamza Jul 05 '16 at 00:28
  • Probably CentOS 6 then. IIRC you can do a rpm -qa centos-release to confirm (example) but that's almost certainly what it is. In that case there should be a /etc/centos-release file instead but for some reason the globbing didn't catch it. Weird. – Bratchley Jul 05 '16 at 00:30
  • -bash: rpm: command not found

    -bash: /etc/centos-release: No such file or directory

     – Hamza Jul 05 '16 at 00:31
  • Not sure then, it might be something Godaddy put together that's based off CentOS then. That's what Amazon did with Amazon Linux. – Bratchley Jul 05 '16 at 00:32

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From your output, it's a redhat based system. Your kernel has el6 in the name and gcc states Red Hat 4.4.7-16. This more than likely means it's CentOS 6.

Typically on Red Hat systems, these will give you a hint on what's installed:

  • /etc/redhat-release
  • /etc/centos-release
  • uname -r => If the kernel has an EL* in the name, it's Enterprise Linux. The number will tell you the major release version

As an aside, your kernel is not a mainline kernel. Despite the fact that it has EL6 in the name, it also has a VERY different version number and has an LVE tag. Looks like this is a GoDaddy spun version of CentOS. They have a tendency to remove a lot of core functionality and binaries and hide them away from the users.

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