Long-running jobs with renewal of krb5 tickets and AFS tokens

[Hugo Meiland]

Jason Edgecombe wrote:
> We have users who need to run long-running jobs and store their files in 
> AFS during the run.
>
> I've read the k5start and k5renew man pages, but I don't see how I can 
> have users type in their password when they start a job and have the 
> tickets and tokens keep being renewed.
>
>   


Hi John,

I'm forcing an 'at' job in the .cshrc script to 'k5renew' and 'afs5log' 
every 8 hours or so for the max lifetime of a week. This works only for 
interactively started jobs of course; jobs running through a scheduler 
such as pbs or condor  need some other tricks...

Hugo