On Mon, 2017-02-27 at 16:35 -0600, Chris wrote:
> On Mon, 2017-02-27 at 23:20 +0100, Michael Biebl wrote:
> > 
> > 2017-02-27 23:09 GMT+01:00 Chris <[email protected]>:
> > > 
> > > 
> > > On Mon, 2017-02-27 at 19:31 +0100, Michael Biebl wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > Can you check the permissions of /run/user/1000/dconf/user? My
> > > > guess
> > > > is that it is root owned because you've started an X
> > > > application
> > > > as
> > > > root.
> > > 
> > > chris@localhost:~$ ls -l /run/user/1000/dconf
> > > total 4
> > > -rw------- 1 chris chris 2 Feb 27 16:06 user
> > 
> > You need to check the permissions when this actually happens.
> > 
> > As soon as you stop the root X process, the permissions are
> > typically
> > restored.
> > 
> > 
> What's the best way to monitor that?
> 
I probably mentioned this but this goes on 24/7, every two minutes. I
can't narrow it down to any process that is starting and stopping. The
only process I can say for sure that starts and stops every two minutes
is fetchmail when it polls my main mail account and I'm pretty sure
that that's not a root X process.

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