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Re: some process flooding oracle's .sh_history file

From: EdStevens <quetico_man_at_yahoo.com>
Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2007 13:33:29 -0700
Message-ID: <1185914009.137480.314970@19g2000hsx.googlegroups.com>


On Jul 31, 2:39 pm, sybra..._at_hccnet.nl wrote:
> On Tue, 31 Jul 2007 11:02:36 -0700, EdStevens <quetico_..._at_yahoo.com>
> wrote:
>
>
>
> >Platform: Oracle 10.2.0.2.0 on HP-UX B.11.11
>
> >This began just recently. While logged on to the sever with the
> >'oracle' account, I noticed my command line history returning a bunch
> >of stuff I hadn't entered. This is a very small shop, so I have a
> >pretty good feel for when someone else may be logged on, and the
> >commands in the history didn't look like anything any of us would have
> >entered at the command line.
>
> >Looking into oracle's .sh_history file, I found scores of entries like
> >this:
>
> >2 echo Start Command;LC_ALL=C;export LC_ALL;netstat -i; echo Finish
> >Command
> >3 echo Start Command; LC_ALL=C;export LC_ALL;/etc/swapinfo -t | grep
> >total;echo Finish Command
>
> >( I've left the vi line numbers, to deliniate individual records.)
>
> >Looks like something the dbcontrol agent would be doing to gather
> >stats, but if so, I've never seen it show up in the .sh_history file
> >before.
>
> >Anyone seen anything like this, or have and educated idea?
>
> You could of course have
> HISTFILE=<any filename>$$
> in your profile.
>
> --
> Sybrand Bakker
> Senior Oracle DBA

Yes, but I'd like to find out where this history is coming from, not simply how to dodge it. Received on Tue Jul 31 2007 - 15:33:29 CDT

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