From: "Dylan Penhale" <dylanpenhale@(email surpressed)>
Subject: Re: job start time
   Date: Wed, 21 May 2008 18:20:33 -0400
Msg# 1738
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I stand corrected :)

2008/5/22 Robert Minsk <rminsk@(email surpressed)>:
[posted to rush.general]

Why not use "WaitFor" on the submit script?  For example

waitfor 5:30pm
waitfor +04:15:00


On Wednesday 21 May 2008 15:03, Dylan Penhale wrote:
> Hi Michael
>
> Easiest way I can think, but bit of a bodge. Submit the job as normal, then
> pause it. Then set up a temporary cron job to unpause the job.
>
> Hacky but it would work. To my knowledge there isn't a clean way to apply a
> start time to a job.
>
> Dylan
>
> 2008/5/22 Michael Oliver <moliver@(email surpressed)>:
> > [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.



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