Basics – Jobkill goes interactive

In a previous post, I described how one could use jobquery and jobkill to terminate running scheduled clones in situations where NMC doesn’t allow the clone to be stopped from within the GUI. However, jobquery isn’t necessarily the most intuitive of interfaces if you’re not using it all the time.

I was pleasantly surprised when I was preparing some documentation to note that jobkill, as of 7.6 SP2, has become interactive if there are multiple jobs running, which reduces the need to run jobquery if you’re wanting to just stop one scheduled operation.

In 7.6 SP2, if you run jobkill without any arguments, and there are jobs running, you’ll run into an interactive session such as the following.

# jobkill
                      job id: 3104018;
                        name: tara-5;
                        type: savegroup job;
                     command: ;
           NW Client name/id: ;
                  start time: 1312763880;
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                      job id: 3104025;
                        name: /d/01;
                        type: save job;tara.pmdg.lab
                     command: 
save -s tara.pmdg.lab -g nox-5 -LL -f - -m tara.pmdg.lab -t 1312026303 
-l 5 -q -W 78 -N /d/01 /d/01;
           NW Client name/id: tara.pmdg.lab;
                  start time: 1312763880;
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                      job id: 3104026;
                        name: /;
                        type: save job;
                     command: 
save -s tara.pmdg.lab -g nox-5 -LL -f - -m tara.pmdg.lab -t 1312026306 
-l 5 -q -W 78 -N / /;
           NW Client name/id: tara.pmdg.lab;
                  start time: 1312763880;
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Specify jobid to kill ('q' to quit, 'r' to refresh): 3104018
Terminating job 3104018
Specify jobid to kill ('q' to quit, 'r' to refresh): q

So there you go – jobkill is interactive, helpful and now saves the hassle of running jobquery first.