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Are you certain this isn't a docker container you've logged into?
@ursakhiin honestly, didn't consider it. Just checked and the "docker" command doesn't even exist so I assume that is not the case. Do you know if the is any other way I can be certain?
Well, the docker command wouldn't exist inside of a container. You could use uname to check the system info.
How is it you don't know this information about a system you've connected to?
@ursakhiin honestly, I didn't even know an aws instance could be a docker image. Everything I did was creating the instance normally so I assumed it was just a regular vm. But already double checked and it is not a docker image, so no problem there 🙂
It's not that an Amazon instance can be a docker container. It was more that the behavior you are describing is extremely odd for a full Linux environment but normal for a docker container.
If you created the instance, it isn't likely a container. But it also sounds like the base image might be poorly set up
You probably want to run the command as nobody, the special system user who daemons become when they don't want to have root permissions.