diff --git a/install.sh b/install.sh
index 03e51f4..8837c43 100755
--- a/install.sh
+++ b/install.sh
@@ -30,10 +30,12 @@ fi
 echo "# install exec and config" 
 rsync -hav --info=name2,stats0,flist0 $FLAGS \
 	./snakemakeslurm \
+	./slurm-status.py \
 	./cluster.slurm.cheaha.json \
 	$1
 
 echo "# install modulefiles" 
 rsync -hav --info=name2,stats0,flist0 $FLAGS \
+        --exclude="*~" \
 	./modulefiles/snakemakeslurm \
         $1/../../modulefiles
diff --git a/modulefiles/snakemakeslurm/5.2.4-3 b/modulefiles/snakemakeslurm/5.2.4-3
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..82d8133
--- /dev/null
+++ b/modulefiles/snakemakeslurm/5.2.4-3
@@ -0,0 +1,43 @@
+#%Module1.0##################################################################### 
+##
+## snakemakeslurm
+##
+## https://github.com/rusalkaguy/snakemake-slurm-module
+##
+################################################################################
+set components [ file split [ module-info name ] ]
+set prog [ lindex $components 0 ]
+set snakemake-version [ lindex [ split [ lindex $components 1 ] - ] 0 ]
+set script_version [ lindex [ split [ lindex $components 1 ] - ] 1 ]
+set version ${snakemake-version}-${script_version}
+set modroot /share/apps/ngs-ccts/${prog}/${prog}-${version}
+set url	https://github.com/rusalkaguy/snakemake-slurm-module
+
+proc ModulesHelp { } {
+    global version modroot
+    puts stderr "\tsnakemakeslurm - have snakemake submit jobs via slurm to cheaha"
+   puts stderr "\n\tComponents $components\n"
+    puts stderr "\n\tVersion $version\n"
+    puts stderr "\n\tmodroot $modroot\n"
+}
+module-whatis   "Loads snakemakeslurm environment."
+
+# load required modules
+# make sure to load dvctools first; if loaded second, it loads an older GCC.
+module load dvctools
+# UAB-HPC old module naming convention
+# #module load rc/snakemake/${snakemake-version}
+module load snakemake/${snakemake-version}-foss-2018b-Python-3.6.6
+# snakemake 4.8.0 doesn't work with Anaconda3/5.3.0
+# snakemake 5.2.4 DOES work with Anaconda3/5.3.1 - 
+# update Anaconda3 to 2020.02 to work with RNA-Seq pipeline
+module load Anaconda3/2020.02
+# only one version at a time
+#conflict multiqc
+
+#
+#
+# Make the directories available
+prepend-path PATH        $modroot/
+#prepend-path MANPATH 	$modroot/share/man
+#prepend-path    PYTHONPATH  odroot/lib/python2.7/site-packages
diff --git a/slurm-status.py b/slurm-status.py
index a712d84..a8ae124 100755
--- a/slurm-status.py
+++ b/slurm-status.py
@@ -11,7 +11,9 @@
 
 STATUS_ATTEMPTS = 20
 
-jobid = sys.argv[1]
+#jobid = sys.argv[1] # original from https://github.com/Snakemake-Profiles/slurm
+# Locally, our snakemake --cluster-status passes the args ["Submitted", "batch",  "job", JOBID]!
+jobid = sys.argv[4]
 
 
 for i in range(STATUS_ATTEMPTS):
diff --git a/snakemakeslurm b/snakemakeslurm
index 8d85b3e..dddfcc2 100755
--- a/snakemakeslurm
+++ b/snakemakeslurm
@@ -95,6 +95,23 @@ fi
 # list in order, later files override earlier ones
 #
 
+# global config lives with this script
+
+#
+# check if we have a script to get "cause of death" from SLURM
+# w/o this, if SLURM kills a job for over-time or over-mem, snakemake wont know
+# 
+# See: https://snakemake.readthedocs.io/en/stable/tutorial/additional_features.html?highlight=--cluster-status%20#using-cluster-status
+#
+SLURM_STATUS_FLAG=
+SLURM_STATUS_SCRIPT=$(dirname $0)/slurm-status.py
+if [ -e "$SLURM_STATUS_SCRIPT" ]; then 
+    if [ "$DEBUG" == "1" ]; then echo "# found $SLURM_STATUS_SCRIPT"; fi; 
+    SLURM_STATUS_FLAG=" --cluster-status $SLURM_STATUS_SCRIPT"
+else
+    echo "# WARNING: missing $SLURM_STATUS_SCRIPT "
+fi
+
 # global config lives with this script
 CCONFIGS="--cluster-config $(dirname $0)/cluster.slurm.cheaha.json"
 
@@ -130,5 +147,6 @@ $EXEC snakemake \
     --latency-wait 45 \
     --jobs 999 \
     $CCONFIGS \
+    $SLURM_STATUS_FLAG \
     --cluster "sbatch $SM_ARGS" \
     $*