[RndTbl] Weird code showing up in bash history
Adam Thompson
athompso at athompso.net
Fri Jan 29 17:20:07 CST 2016
I am not personally familiar with it, but it seems very clear that it's
something being executed by BMC ADDM
(http://www.bmc.com/it-solutions/atrium-discovery-dependency-mapping.html).
-Adam
On 16-01-29 08:46 AM, Kevin McGregor wrote:
> Has anyone seen this happen? On several Ubuntu server systems (10.04,
> 14.04, 15.10), I'll be scrolling through the bash history with the
> up-arrow, and suddenly there will be a ton a code with the word
> "tideway" used in it very often. I'll check the dot-bash_history file,
> and sure enough there are large sections of script/code in there which
> I obviously did not type.
>
> Where did it come from? How do I stop it?
>
> Here's a short sample:
>
> tw_command() { cpuspeed=`egrep '^(cpu MHz|cpu clock|clock)'
> /proc/cpuinfo | cut -f2 -d: | sed -e 's/\.[0-9]*//' -e 's/Mhz//i' -e
> 's/ //g' | head -n 1`; cputype=`egrep '^cpu[^a-z]*:' /proc/cpuinfo |
> sort -u | cut -f2 -d: | sed -e 's/^ //' | head -n 1`; if [
> "${cputype}" = "" ]; then cputype=`egrep '^model name'
> /proc/cpuinfo | sort -u | cut -f2 -d: | sed -e 's/^ //' | head -n 1`;
> fi; if [ "${cputype}" = "" ]; then cputype=`egrep '^arch'
> /proc/cpuinfo | sort -u | cut -f2 -d: | sed -e 's/^ //' | head -n 1`;
> fi; if [ "${cputype}" = "" ]; then cputype=`egrep '^(cpu
> model|family|vendor_id|machine|Processor)' /proc/cpuinfo | sort -u |
> cut -f2 -d: | sed -e 's/^ //' | head -n 1`; fi; logical=`egrep
> '^[pP]rocessor' /proc/cpuinfo | sort -u | wc -l`; physical=0;
> cores=0; threads_per_core=0; if [ "`echo $cputype | cut -c-2`" = "PA"
> ]; then cpufamily=`egrep '^(cpu family)' /proc/cpuinfo | sort -u |
> cut -f2 -d: | sed -e 's/^ //' | head -n 1`; if [ "`echo
> $cpufamily | cut -c-7`" = "PA-RISC" ]; then
> cputype="${cp(tideway_i=__TIDEWAY; echo ${tideway_i}_CMD_START__;
> tw_command; echo ${tideway_i}_CMD_END__) tw_command() {
> cpuspeed=`egrep '^(cpu MHz|cpu clock|clock)' /proc/cpuinfo | cut -f2
> -d: | sed -e 's/\.[0-9]*//' -e 's/Mhz//i' -e 's/ //g' | head -n 1`;
> cputype=`egrep '^cpu[^a-z]*:' /proc/cpuinfo | sort -u | cut -f2 -d: |
> sed -e 's/^ //' | head -n 1`; if [ "${cputype}" = "" ]; then
> cputype=`egrep '^model name' /proc/cpuinfo | sort -u | cut -f2 -d: |
> sed -e 's/^ //' | head -n 1`; fi; if [ "${cputype}" = "" ]; then
> cputype=`egrep '^arch' /proc/cpuinfo | sort -u | cut -f2 -d: | sed -e
> 's/^ //' | head -n 1`; fi; if [ "${cputype}" = "" ]; then
> cputype=`egrep '^(cpu model|family|vendor_id|machine|Processor)'
> /proc/cpuinfo | sort -u | cut -f2 -d: | sed -e 's/^ //' | head -n 1`;
> fi; logical=`egrep '^[pP]rocessor' /proc/cpuinfo | sort -u | wc -l`;
> physical=0; cores=0; threads_per_core=0; if [ "`echo $cputype | cut
> -c-2`" = "PA" ]; then cpufamily=`egrep '^(cpu family)'
> /proc/cpuinfo | sort -u | cut -f2 -d: | sed -e 's/^ //' | head -n 1`;
> if [ "`echo $cpufamily | cut -c-7`" = "PA-RISC" ]; then
> cputype="${cpprintf("hostid: ");
>
>
>
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