David Both wrote: >> As a matter of interest, why does systemd start sessions >> every couple of minutes? >> And if it is completely standard, is it necessary >> to inform me of this in /var/log/messages? > Sessions of what? Posting log entries here would help. -------------------------- [tim at alfred ~]$ tail /var/log/messages Sep 6 21:20:01 alfred systemd: Created slice user-0.slice. Sep 6 21:20:01 alfred systemd: Starting Session 2158 of user root. Sep 6 21:20:01 alfred systemd: Started Session 2158 of user root. Sep 6 21:22:01 alfred systemd: Starting Session 2159 of user tim. Sep 6 21:22:01 alfred systemd: Started Session 2159 of user tim. Sep 6 21:23:01 alfred systemd: Starting Session 2160 of user tim. Sep 6 21:23:01 alfred systemd: Started Session 2160 of user tim. Sep 6 21:24:54 alfred systemd-logind: New session 2161 of user tim. Sep 6 21:24:54 alfred systemd: Starting Session 2161 of user tim. Sep 6 21:24:54 alfred systemd: Started Session 2161 of user tim. -------------------------- -- Timothy Murphy e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland