From: "Michael Oliver" <moliver@(email surpressed)>
Subject: Re: job start time
   Date: Wed, 21 May 2008 18:31:07 -0400
Msg# 1739
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I knew I had seen the time thing before but the help within the rush gui 
submit for shake only documents waiting for jobid's...... ;)
hahaha...anyways thanks everyone!

"Greg Ercolano" <erco@(email surpressed)> wrote in message 
news:1735-rush decimal general at seriss decimal com...
> Michael Oliver wrote:
>> [posted to rush.general]
>>
>> Is there a way to submit a job to rush but tell it not to start until a
>> later time?  The issue came up because an artist has a job that is going 
>> to
>> take a while to render and does not want to hog the queue during the
>> day...however they would like to submit the job now so it is ready to go
>> later this evening.
>
> Yes, the 'waitfor' submit command allows several ways to specify
> a time to wait for before starting the job:
> http://www.seriss.com/rush-current/rush/rush-submit-cmds.html#WaitFor
>
> To use this in one of the GUI submit forms, you can specify the following
> at the 'Submit Commands:' prompt under the 'Rush' tab:
>
> waitfor 18:00
>
> ..which will cause the job to remain in a 'wait' state until 6pm.
>
> Or, if you're using your own submit script, you can equally do:
>
> rush -submit << EOF
> .
> waitfor 18:00
> .
> EOF
>
> Note that you can also specify relative times, eg.
> "waitfor +4h" for "4 hours from now", or a specific
> time and date. See the above link for examples.
>
> -- 
> Greg Ercolano, erco@(email surpressed)
> Seriss Corporation
> Rush Render Queue, http://seriss.com/rush/
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