Using the Grid/Job cancel

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  • Problem: you want to cancel one or more jobs that you just submitted
  • Solution use glite-wms-job-cancel

In order to cancel one or more of the jobs submitted. Use the following command:

glite-wms-job-cancel <JobID>

Like the commands glite-wms-job-status and glite-wms-job-output this command has an -i option which uses a file with jobIDs as arguments. The following example shows it's use.

mgjansen$ glite-wms-job-cancel -i myjobs
------------------------------------------------------------------
1 : https://wms.grid.sara.nl:9000/8Ey04s3x9xIEE_6hCwb8hw
2 : https://wms.grid.sara.nl:9000/L4kprOVqd9QwdSTg2cbGCw
a : all
q : quit
------------------------------------------------------------------

Choose one or more jobId(s) in the list - [1-2]all (use , as separator or - for a range): a

Are you sure you want to remove specified job(s) [y/n]y : y

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Connecting to the service https://145.100.13.54:7443/glite_wms_wmproxy_server


============================= glite-wms-job-cancel Success =============================

The cancellation request has been successfully submitted for the following job(s):

- https://wms.grid.sara.nl:9000/8Ey04s3x9xIEE_6hCwb8hw
- https://wms.grid.sara.nl:9000/L4kprOVqd9QwdSTg2cbGCw

========================================================================================

When one of your jobs has already been completed you will get an error message, saying:

Error - Cancel not allowed
Current Job Status is Cleared

This message can be safely ignored.