[RndTbl] Weird code showing up in bash history

Kevin McGregor kevin.a.mcgregor at gmail.com
Fri Jan 29 17:22:38 CST 2016


Ack! Nasty. I'll look into it. Thanks for the pointer!

On Fri, Jan 29, 2016 at 5:20 PM, Adam Thompson <athompso at athompso.net>
wrote:

> 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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