yes I was being ironic about alfred, it looks like it was made during the
toystory 1 days and hasn't been touched since..

but no, not using tractor here..

out of curiosity have you had a look at alan jones opensource renderfarm
manager:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/splish/



On Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 6:32 PM, Stefan Andersson <[email protected]>wrote:

> No, Tractor. Alfred is the old crappy stuff, Tractor is the new shiny
> thing with a Python API :)
>
> Are you guys using it?
>
> Regards
> Stefan
>
>
> On Thursday, August 30, 2012, Andreas Bystrom wrote:
>
>> alfred....
>>
>> On Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 6:13 PM, Stefan Andersson <[email protected]>wrote:
>>
>> I gave up. Didn't even work with maya, Linux permission swamp.
>>
>> So anyone using tractor? We are about to switch to a new dispatcher since
>> rush is... Let's just say that it hasn't changed much the last 5 years. So
>> we are testing everything out there.
>>
>> Best regards
>> Stefan
>>
>>
>> On Wednesday, August 29, 2012, Stefan Andersson wrote:
>>
>> this is from the log file
>>
>>
>> 2012/08/29 11:41:33 INF Receiving new job from 192.168.0.102
>> 2012/08/29 11:41:34 INF Job 'jobName' received and ready
>> 2012/08/29 11:41:34 INF Launching 'Command Line Tool'
>> 2012/08/29 11:41:34 INF New task assigned: 1
>> 2012/08/29 11:41:34 INF [ServerMessage]ProcessStarted processId=7397
>> 2012/08/29 11:41:34 INF No $home variable set.
>> 2012/08/29 11:41:34 ERR Task error: Cmdjob adapter: Process exit
>> abnormally,Exit code is 1
>>
>> 2012/08/29 11:41:34 ERR Cmdjob adapter: Process exit abnormally,Exit code
>> is 1
>>
>> 2012/08/29 11:41:34 INF Application is down
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Aug 29, 2012 at 11:28 AM, Stefan Andersson 
>> <[email protected]>wrote:
>>
>> yes,
>>
>>
>> http://usa.autodesk.com/adsk/servlet/ps/dl/item?siteID=123112&id=18699866&linkID=9242259
>>
>> the submit is commandline based, so it will work with just about any
>> program.
>>
>> All I get is this error message (from the manager, carl is the slave):
>> carl Cmdjob adapter: Process exit abnormally,Exit code is 1
>>
>> Here is the submit command.
>>
>> /usr/discreet/backburner/cmdjob -jobName:SoftimageRender_2
>> -workpath:/usr/discreet/backburner -logPath:/tmp -group:Softimage -progress
>> -userRights 
>> -manager:moe.madcrew.se"/usr/Softimage/Softimage_2012.SAP/Application/bin/xsibatch"
>>  -r -scene
>> "/madcrew/projects/TESTING_0000/000_dev/000_010_DEV/3d/scenes/light/000_010_light_005a_sa.scn"
>> -startframe 401 -endframe 402 -pass bea_clean -script
>> "/madcrew/applications/madcrew/skull/lib/madcrew/render/softimage_render_path.py"
>> -lang Python
>>
>> regards
>> stefan
>>
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Aug 29, 2012 at 11:20 AM, Stefan Kubicek 
>> <[email protected]>wrote:
>>
>> There is Backburner on Linux?
>>
>>
>>
>>  Anyone been able to use it on Linux? I've been trying to get it up and
>> running, and so far I can submit jobs.... but it never starts to render...
>> errrrrgh..
>>
>> So if anyone have any helpful tips it would be most welcome.
>>
>> /s
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
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