brianhill11 / touch

Code for setting up weekly job that touches each file in your scratch directory

Automatically touch Hoffman2 $SCRATCH files on a weely basis

This repo contains scripts for creating a cron job which runs weekly and touches all of the files in your $SCRATCH directory, so that they do not get deleted.

The code assumes you've cloned the repo in your $HOME directory. If cloned in a different location, the file paths in qsub_touch.sh and cron-file.txt need to be updated.

NOTE: this is not a fail-proof method, so please make sure any important files are moved to a file location that is safe/backed up.

Instructions:

1. Make sure that qsub_touch.sh and run_touch.sh have user execute permissions. If not, run: chmod u+x *_touch.sh
2. If the repo was not cloned in your $HOME directory:

• Modify the cron-file.txt file to point to your qsub_touch.sh file
• Modify the qsub_touch.sh file to change to the code repo

3. Install the crontab from the cron file (NOTE: this will destroy existing crontab entries!): crontab cron-file.txt
4. Verify the crontab was installed: crontab -l