For a complete list of all features and bug fixes in this release, see the 102.40f Release Notes.

In 102.40f, all guis now have icons on Mac OSX! You can now drag and drop tools like IRUSH onto the Desktop or Dock.


..with similar instructions for making shortcuts on Windows, Linux, and Irix.

With 102.40f on the Mac, you can now drag and drop submit scripts onto your Desktop or Dock.



..with similar instructions for making Desktop shortcuts on Windows and Linux.

Rushtop

Rushtop now shows machines that are online in green, and dark gray if offline.


Also, a bug was fixed in Irix, where large amounts of swap (2gig or more) were being displayed incorrectly.

Rush / Rushadmin

There are now daemon log statistics that show you a network wide view of the health of the rush daemons. Available from the command line as:

    % rush -dlogstats +any
    #                        ********* Problems ********** **Security* ************* Normal **************
    # SID   Hostname         Alert  Fail Error  Exit  Fork  Bump Secur Start   Rot  Info JobSt JobEn JobKi
    l 0     huron                0     0     0     0     0     0     0     1     0     2     0     0     0
    l 0     ontario              0     0     0     0     0     0     0     1     0     6     2     0     0
    l 0     superior             1     0     0     0     0     0     0     0     1     0     0     0     0
    l 0     geneva               0     0     0     0     0     0     0     0     1     1     0     0     0
    l 0     champlain            1     0     0     0     0     0     0     0     1     0     0     0     0
    l 0     tahoe                0     0     0     0     0     0     0     0     1     0     0     0     0
  

Very useful for checking a large network to see if there is a 'problem child'. A large count in the '** Problems **' section would indicate that machine's daemon log should be checked to see what's wrong.

This feature has also been added to Rushadmin, with it's new 'General Health Check' section, which yields the same report:

Irush Job Edit New Features

New features were added to rush in 102.40, so these features are also accessable from irush.


Irush Improved Sorting

Sorting can now be done in ascending or descending order; the sort buttons are 'tri-state' now, meaning click once to get ascending, click again to get descending, and again to disable sorting. This 'cycles' through sorting similar to how mail programs sort by date/subject by clicking on the sort button several times.


Irush Job Edit: 'View Cpus' Pop Up

Another feature is in 'Job Edit', irush now lets you easily view available cpus, so you can cut-and-paste hostnames and hostgroups easily:

Rushtop Graph Resizing

RUSHTOP now resizes the graph to fit in the window, allowing you to still see process graphs in very small windows.

Www-Rush Improved Look

WWW-RUSH has gotten a facelift to support the multitude of browser and OS combinations that are out there now. Included are nicer looking buttons, and consistent monospaced fonts in the browser selection windows.
1) Fixed width fonts in all browsers (Netscape 4.x + 6.x, Explorer, Mozilla 1.0)
2) Buttons are aligned nicely in all browsers. (Note: older Netscape 4.x won't look as nice; doesn't support style sheets well)

Also, various bugs have been fixed, including:

• Fixed problem which prevented 'Tasklist' button in upper right corner from working correctly.

• Fixed 'Job-Edit' problem which prevented users from changing LogDir, ImgCommand and Command fields.

• www-rush: added help documentation for "Cpu Controls" (it was missing)

Icons For Windows Desktop

All the rush GUIs have icons now, so when you make shortcuts, these icons appear automatically on your desktop.

Mac OSX is now fully supported in this release; this includes the all the rush GUIs; irush, rushtop, etc. Click the image below to see a full OSX screenshot:

• Irush has some big improvements to the online help and to the right click context sensitive help, which is now all html based documentation, and comes up in a small html viewer. This includes a full 'Tips and Tricks' section, eg:
  

  There is also an irush tutorial that is 'in progress'.

• Irush has an online tutorial for using the 'Hotkeys' menu, which shows you how to program the function keys on your keyboard to run shell commands from within irush, eg:
  
  Irush hotkey tutorial; from irush's main menu Help | Tutorial | Defining Hotkeys

• Irush now has a 'log tailing' option, that is on by default; it tails the frame logs in real time, so you can see changes in the logs while renders are running from within irush.
  

• Irush now makes it easier to control whether the image is viewed when you double click on a frame; hold down the Alt key when you double click to bring up the image (assuming an 'imgcommand' was defined for the job)

• Irush has the little yellow tooltip help messages for *all* the irush buttons and fields now.
  

There are several new submit scripts in version 102.31n+.

You can also use these submit scripts with older versions of rush; patches are available.


Shake Submit


Mental Ray Submit


Lightwave Submit


New way to save/retrieve job submit forms