[Genome] [Fwd: Session feature request]

[Angie Hinrichs]

Hi Tim,

While we discuss this locally, here's a workaround, assuming you are 
on a posix system with cron.

Follow the Browser link for a session that contains custom tracks 
(that have not yet expired).  Copy that URL.  Install a nightly cron 
job that fetches that browser link URL.  That will cause hgTracks to 
access the custom track files, which keeps them young-looking so our 
cleanup cron job doesn't delete them.  The crontab spec could look 
something like this:

01 23  *  *  *  wget -q -O /dev/null 'http://........'

Sorry for the inconvenience -- hope that tides you over until we can 
work out something friendlier here.  Thanks for the feedback!

Angie


> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: [Genome] Session feature request
> Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2007 12:58:17 -0600
> From: Tim Hefferon <thefferon at mail.nih.gov>
> To: genome at soe.ucsc.edu
> 
> Hi,
> 
> The Session Feature of the test browser is excellent and sorely
> needed. But to make it fully functional, one should have the option
> of saving the data from all of one's custom tracks in the session
> file that is saved locally. Often I have spent a lot of time
> uploading many custom tracks and arranging them just so, and I
> understand that they cannot be kept on the Genome server for more
> than 48 hours, but the Session Feature really is not all that helpful
> if it does not restore the custom tracks themselves. What is needed
> is the complete session, and that definitely includes the custom
> data, and its arrangement.
> 
> Thanks for listening,
> Tim
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