Is this a spy script??

lawrence_lee_lee · 01-10-2008, 01:14 AM

I found this script in my cron.daily folder. Is this a malicious script? Can anyone take a look at this and give some opinions?

Quote:

#!/bin/sh

bak=/var/backups

# Shamelessly ripped from /etc/cron.daily/standard
if test -f /var/lib/aptitude/pkgstates && cd $bak ; then
if ! cmp -s aptitude.pkgstates.0 /var/lib/aptitude/pkgstates ; then
cp -p /var/lib/aptitude/pkgstates aptitude.pkgstates
savelog -c 7 aptitude.pkgstates > /dev/null
fi
fi

brianmcgee · 01-10-2008, 03:24 AM

This script is used for the package manager aptitude to save extended states of the installed packages. The script saves the last 7 pkgstates as a backup.