mr standalone not cooperating with alfred

[plutovman]

Hello.
I'm trying to distribute my 'mentalrayrender' renders to my farm through alfred, and I'm having some difficulties. I'm wondering if anyone out there has run into a similar problem.

The problem is that even though I can render locally and remotely, when I submit my render through alfred, the process just hangs there doing nothing.

If I do a ps -ef | grep mentalray, I see the following:

vss 25909 23447 0 17:40 ? 00:00:00 /bin/csh -f /usr/autodesk/mi361/bin/mentalrayrender /tmp/test_v001_cameraShape1_bty_mr.0001.mi

However, the process doesn't even show up in top.

Does anybody have any ideas as to what may be happening? I am including my alfred script below for completion.
I'm running mentalray on a linux (fedora core 5) renderfarm

Thanks in advance

##AlfredToDo 1.0

set AlfJobETALevel 1
set AlfJobTitle {rnd_test_v001_mrlic.sh_F_1-20 (Render job) }
global &renderCmd &renderSvc &renderTag
set &renderCmd {render -Progress}
set &renderSvc {MayaRen}
set &renderTag {prman intensive}
Task -title {rnd_test_v001_mrlic.sh} -subtasks {
Task -title {Frame 1-10} -id {Frame.1} -service {MayaRen} -subtasks { } -cmds {
RemoteCmd {mentalrayrender /tmp/test_v001_cameraShape1_bty_mr.0001.mi } -refersto {Frame.1}
} -cleanup {
} -chaser {
}
} -cmds {
} -cleanup {
} -chaser {
}

[Szabolcs]

Oh my, this brings back some ugly memories... As far as I remember you had to do a trick to use your own wrapper procedure to start ray. Maybe simply redirecting the stdout / stderr also works but I'm not sure.

Cheers,
Szabolcs