Unknown network activity every 5 minutes

[Tim]

On Wed, 2005-10-12 at 09:18 -0400, McGuffey, David wrote:

> Have just started working with FC4 (after several years of working Solaris
> and Windows efforts), and noticed that I'm getting network activity every 5
> minutes, even when no one is logged onto the system.  It appears that a
> process is waking up every 5 minutes and checking something--maybe DNS.
> 
> Where is network activity logged?

/var/log/

With the "messages" file being the general log for everything, and
others for specific things.

> What process might be doing this?

The things that first spring to mind are NTP, CUPS and Samba.

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