Could the “Fatal Error:” string be made a default fatal error in the mayabatch plugin?
Here is an example:
0: INFO: Deadline is ignoring error: “*** Fatal Error: Failed creating shelf directory: C:/Users/ScanlineVfx_user/Documents/maya/2012-x64/prefs/shelves” because plugin setting Strict Error Checking is enabled and this error is not usually fatal.
cheers,
laszlo