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systemctl cancel — Cancel one or more pending jobs in the system manager or user manager. More information: <https://ww

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Problem

How to use the systemctl cancel command: Cancel one or more pending jobs in the system manager or user manager. More information: <https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/latest/systemctl.html#cancel%20JOB%E2%80%A6>.

Solution

systemctl cancel — Cancel one or more pending jobs in the system manager or user manager. More information: <https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/latest/systemctl.html#cancel%20JOB%E2%80%A6>.

Cancel a job by its numeric ID:

systemctl cancel {{job_id}}

Cancel multiple jobs:

systemctl cancel {{job_id1 job_id2 ...}}

Cancel all pending jobs:

systemctl cancel

Cancel a job in the user service manager:

systemctl cancel {{job_id}} --user

Code Snippets

Cancel a job by its numeric ID

systemctl cancel {{job_id}}

Cancel multiple jobs

systemctl cancel {{job_id1 job_id2 ...}}

Cancel all pending jobs

systemctl cancel

Cancel a job in the user service manager

systemctl cancel {{job_id}} --user

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tldr-pages: linux/systemctl cancel

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