Fix hg dirstate change by changing cron user Any sites with changes that didn't get added to the `dirstate` (e.g. by `hg prompt`) will result in the next `hg` command rebuilding the dirstate under that owner. If the `hg-check-status` command runs as root then we end up with a root-owned dirstate. This most frequently happened on BDStrike.co.uk because of Wordpress auto-updates that the check found first.