Setting for server to run command periodically (would improve AFS support)

[edemaine]

In my server setup (common at MIT), an ssh session needs to periodically (every 4 hours) run the command krenew to keep access to the filesystem (AFS). Currently this means that I need to manually kill the server every 4 hours in order to restart the timer.

I propose the addition of setting(s) to tell the VSCode remote server to run a user-specified command like krenew. Even the ability to run a single command (ideally in the background) would suffice for my purposes. (I already have a kautorenew script that runs krenew periodically.) Even nicer would be the ability to specify to run a command every n seconds, for a specified n. (This wouldn't have to be in the background.)

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[joshspicer]

Thanks for the suggestion. We've seen a handful of AFS-related issues so this idea to improve that experience is appreciated.