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Job Cancelling

Job Cancelling

To cancel job, use scancel

scancel job_id

Examples

Send SIGTERM to steps 1 and 3 of job 1234:

scancel --signal=TERM 1234.1 1234.3

Cancel job 1234 along with all of its steps:

scancel 1234

Send SIGKILL to all steps of job 1235, but do not cancel the job itself:

scancel --signal=KILL 1235

Cancel all your jobs

scancel -u username

Cancel all your pending jobs

scancel -t PD

Man page

man scancel