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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](https://dpaste.de/9bpT) – 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](https://dpaste.de/rZ9k)) 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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