I’ve been working with communicating with Backburner via Telnet… and I was wondering if anyone knows the command sequence to update a job. I’d like to be able to set dependences via the Telnet connection.
Or even straight thru MaxScript, but I haven’t seen that option in the Job MixinInterface for BB.
Thanks in advance.
Apart from the “help” command in telnet, I’ve never been able to find any documentation on this. So it might be possible to edit dependencies, but without any docs it’s pretty hard to figure out… As for mxs, I don’t think you can set dependencies through the netman interface. The only way I can think of is by editing the job’s xml file:
<JobHasDependencies>Yes</JobHasDependencies>
...
<DependsOn>
<!--Dependency List -->
<Dependent>1470722872</Dependent>
</DependsOn>
But this would probably require you to restart the manager…
So all in all I’m not much of help!
Hope you’ll figure it out
Cheers,
Martijn
Yes, Changing the xml requires a restart of the manager… a bit inconventent with 70 render nodes… Not really an option…
I’ve been making progress, but it’s definitely been trial and error, so it may take awhile… but with each success I jump up out of my seat and do a little dance… I’ll been making a doc as I go, so I’ll post it when it’s more complete…
contact Thorsten (instinct-) at http://www.leviathan-entertainment.de/ We were talking a few months back on IRC and he was doing some work with the telnet interface for one of his in-house management tools, maybe he’d share a few findings