How to get the dang thing to work (Was: Linux: How to statically link against system libs?)

[Nick Sabalausky]

"Nick Sabalausky" <a at a.a> wrote in message 
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> "Spacen Jasset" <spacenjasset at yahoo.co.uk> wrote in message 
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>>
>> try lsb_release for this, if you aren't sure (and it's available as a 
>> command)
>>
>> jason at ionrift:~$ lsb_release -a
>> No LSB modules are available.
>> Distributor ID: Ubuntu
>> Description:    Ubuntu 10.04.2 LTS
>> Release:        10.04
>> Codename:       lucid
>>
>> otherwise cat /etc/*release*
>>
>
> On my system, the one I'm compiling on, I get:
>
> $ lsb_release -a
> No LSB modules are available.
> Distributor ID: Ubuntu
> Description:    Ubuntu 10.04.1 LTS
> Release:        10.04
> Codename:       lucid
>
> On the main server I just get:
>
> $ lsb_release -a
> -jailshell: lsb_release: command not found
>

On the main server, cat /etc/*release* doesn't work either:

$ cat /etc/*release*
cat: cat /etc/*release*: No such file or directory