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Shawn O. Pearce3f1a13a2009-11-20 20:15:41 -08001kill
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4NAME
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6kill - Cancel or abort a background task
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8SYNOPSIS
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10[verse]
11'ssh' -p <port> <host> 'kill' <ID> ...
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13DESCRIPTION
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15Cancels a scheduled task from the queue. If the task has already
16been started, requests for the task to cancel as soon as it reaches
17its next cancellation point (which is usually blocking IO).
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19ACCESS
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Shawn O. Pearce7f485142011-06-16 13:49:42 -070021Caller must be a member of the privileged 'Administrators' group,
Fredrik Luthander46843022012-03-13 16:11:02 +010022or have been granted link:access-control.html#capability_kill[the 'Kill Task' global capability].
Shawn O. Pearce3f1a13a2009-11-20 20:15:41 -080023
24SCRIPTING
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26Intended for interactive use only.
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28GERRIT
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30Part of link:index.html[Gerrit Code Review]