What is this ?

[amokwa]

Can anyone help ? I opened the bonnet of my '99 E46 323 and saw this white paste on tubes on the left hand side of the engine bay :

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[Top pup]

Looks like someones sprayed some white greese on a linkage to me.

[amokwa]

Thanks hope it is I am worried it is something squeezing out