Cancel active synchronization tasks

Most environments synchronize repositories on a scheduled basis. You may encounter a situation where you need to cancel active synchronization tasks.

Before you begin

  • There are existing repositories.
  • There are active synchronization tasks.

Procedure

  1. Navigate to the Red Hat Update Infrastructure Management Tool home screen: 
    [root@rhua ~]# rhua rhui-manager
  2. Press s to select synchronization status and scheduling.
  3. From the Synchronization Status screen, press ca to select cancel active sync tasks.
  4. Enter the value for the task or tasks that you want to cancel: 
    Select one or more repositories for which you want to cancel their active tasks.
  -    1: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 for x86_64 - AppStream from RHUI (Debug RPMs) (10.0)
Enter value (1-1) to toggle selection, 'c' to confirm selections, or '?' for more commands:
  5. Press c to confirm your selection.
  6. Press y to cancel the synchronization task or tasks: 
    The active tasks will be canceled for the following repositories:
  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 for x86_64 - AppStream from RHUI (Debug RPMs) (10.0)
Proceed? (y/n)

Results

A similar message displays if you cancel an active synchronization task:

Canceling active task for repo Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 for x86_64 - AppStream from RHUI (Debug RPMs) (10.0) ...
... done