Submitting Jobs from a Command Line or Script
 
 
 

Use the Backburner command-job utility, cmdjob, to submit batch, executable, or script files to Backburner as “custom” jobs for execution on remote servers. This tool provides flexibility in running custom jobs from scripts. For example, you could create a script that submits all jobs contained in a network folder to be rendered automatically at night.

WarningSpecial security consideration should be given to the cmdjob utility, as it can execute commands remotely on all the render nodes on the network. A trained systems administrator should ensure that the execution permissions are properly set and managed.

The command-job utility makes use of one of two adapters, depending on the job options you specify when submitting the job to Backburner, as indicated in the following table.

Adapter Description
CmdJobAdapter Executes submitted jobs as root user account. Used by default.

Available on all supported platforms.

UserCmdJobAdapter Executes submitted job as the account that submitted the job. To invoke this adapter, specify the -userRights job option when submitting the job.

Available on Linux and Mac OS only. Not available on Windows.

See Options for the cmdjob Utility.

The command-job adapters are installed in the following directories: