Re: some process flooding oracle's .sh_history file

On Tue, 31 Jul 2007 11:02:36 -0700, EdStevens <quetico_man_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.

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Sybrand Bakker
Senior Oracle DBA