If you need to run a certain task at given regular intervals automatically, you may use our cron service avaiable available on the hosts hpc-cron for HPC users and ecs-cron for those with no access to the HPCF.
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You can see your cron jobs by logging into hpc-cron or ecs-cron via ssh:
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ssh hpc-logincron # or for users with no HPCF access: ssh ecs-logincron |
Once logged inAnd once inside, run:
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crontab -l |
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You can edit your crontab by running using the following command on the hpc-cron or ecs-cron special nodes:
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If you need to run a logserver on the Atos HPCF, it is a good idea to have a cron job that checks if the server is up and restarts it automatically otherwise. Because the log server runs on a different node, you would need to run it remotely. The following example runs every 15 minutes to make a connection to hpc-log to start the logserver:
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