Unknown network activity every 5 minutes

[William Hooper]

micheal wrote:
>
> Strange, I don't doubt what you are saying. Yet, I do not
> have /etc/sysconfig/rhn/systemid on my system. About every 5 minutes,
> ethereal shows traffic going back and forth between my computer and
> xmlrpc.rhn.redhat.com.  Maybe it is the rhn-applet doing this?

If you are running FC4 it is most likely the rhn-applet.  Since there are
issues with rhn-applet and newer style yum repos [1], it doesn't realize
that you are running Fedora, so it falls back to trying to talk to RHN.

It would be rather simple to test by just exiting rhn-applet.  If you are
using FC4, it's not alerting you about updates anyway.

[1] - https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=160873
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William Hooper