I edited a few .jelly files for Hudson, but it's not reflected. How do I restart Hudson ? I hope that this will display the HTML tag changes made in the .jelly files.
I am trying to change the look and feel of the Hudson.
On what OS do you run Hudson? How did you install Hudson? .....
The basic idea is to stop Hudson (or just kill it) and than start it the same way it was started before. If you are not the person who installed it, call the person. After a while they get tired of you asking and will give you the instructions (and also the permissions) to do it yourself. ;)
If you have create plugin with mvn -U org.jenkins-ci.tools:maven-hpi-plugin:create command.
This will have in built Hudson.
You can run mvn hpi:run at location of plugin.
You can debug using mvnDebug hpi:run.
mvnDebug by default uses 8000 port,if you are using eclipse as IDE, Go to Run -> open Debug Config -> Select plugin and port and start debug. This will do remote debugging on 8000 port.
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I am setting up Jenkins to replace our current TeamCity CI build.
I have created a free-style software project so that I can execute a shell script.
The Shell script runs the mvn command.
But the build fails complaining that the 'mvn' command cannot be found.
I have figured that this is because Jenkins is running the build in a different shell, which does not have Maven on it's path.
My question is; how do I add the path so 'mvn' is found in my Shell script? I've looked around but can't spot where the right place might be.
Thanks for your time.
I solved this by exporting and setting the Path in the Jenkins Job configuration where you can enter shell commands. So I set the environments variable before I execute my Shell script, works a treat.
Some possible solutions:
You can call maven with an absolute path
You configure a global environment variable in the jenkins system settings with the absolute path to your maven instance, and use this in your script call (if you use the inline shell script, I don't know if those are substituted to a called script, you have to test)
You use a maven project and configure your maven instance in the jenkins system settings
ps.: Usually /bin/sh is chosen from Jenkins, if you want to switch to eg. bash, you can configure this in the jenkins system settings, in case you want to configure global environment variables.
You can use envInject plugin. It's very powerful.
I use it to install rbenv. And it can inject environment variables into your current job.
Another option to Dags suggestion is that if you're only using a single version of maven, on each slave server you could do either;
* add PATH=${PATH}:
* symlink mvn into /usr/bin with; sudo ln -s /usr/bin
I'm not at a Jenkins box at the moment, but I can find some more detailed examples if you'd like.
Jenkins is using sh by default and not bash.
This is my first time defining a jenkins maven job, and I also followed soem regular maven instructions (for running from command line...), and tried to update ~/.bashrc with M2_HOME, M2, PATH, but it didn't work because jenkins used sh and not bash. Then I found out that there is a simpler and better way built into jenkins.
After installing maven, I was supposed to configure my maven installation in jenkins.
To configure your maven installation in Jenkins:
login to jenkins web console
click Manage Jenkins --> Configure System
Under Maven, click the "Maven Installations..." button
a. Give it some name
b. and under MVN_HOME set the path to where you installed maven, for example "/usr/local/apache-maven/apache-maven-3.0.5"
Click Save button
Define a job with maven target
edit your job
Click "Add build step"
on Maven Version, enter the name you gave your maven installation (step #4 above)
set some goal like clean install
I would like to run a task (stop a running vm machine) before Jenkins starts the check-out.
The reason is: VM blocks access to some files I have to update via subversion.
Is this possible?
There are two plugins for controlling virtual machines, depending on whether you are using VirtualBox or VMWare.
I'm quite sure you can configure the pre-build step to be "Suspend" as shown in the images, at least for VMWare.
VMware Plugin
VirtualBox Plugin
Edit your project and set:
Configure M2 Extra Build Steps --> Execute shell --> Type in whatever you'd like to do. For example:
# Wipe the local repository before each build.
rm -rf $WORKSPACE/.repository
Have a look at How do I trigger another job from hudson as a pre-build step?. I think this has been asked before there.
I am trying to configure a task in Hudson for a VC++ project. I was able to build a project from the file system with MSBuild task. But when I try to configure the task to check out a bazaar repo to do the build, checkout is always failing in authentication. Bazaar passwordless access is setup on the machine and when I use bzr cmd line, checkout is happening without password. Another post suggested that I should have the id_rsa in C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator.hudson - but that also did not help. In Subversion config I saw a way of mentioning username and password. Is there any way to get around this problem.
I assume you have set up the authentication in the windows equivalent of ~/.bazaar/authentication.conf (use bzr version -v to get the correct location).
Is hudson running as the same user as the one you use to connect with the command-line? Because that will impact which authentication.conf it will try to use.
My hudson is using authentication.conf fine but I run it on Ubuntu.
I solved the problem. The authentication.conf is not being considered in windows. I made the repo accessible through http and configured the bazaar with that URL. It was able to download the repo with http protocol without asking for password. One more thing I did was I created a username in hudson, which I matched with a user having access in the bazaar repo which solved another problem which was asking for a user named pwd.
I have a few plugins in my Jenkins installation which I no longer need. I've already disabled the plugins (and my build still work), and I'd like to remove the plugins completely. What is the right process for completely removing a Jenkins (Hudson) plugin?
As mentioned by Jesse Glick in his answer, if you are using Jenkins 1.487 or higher, then there is a native way to uninstall plugins in the Jenkins UI. See JENKINS-3070 for details.
If you are using a version of Jenkins earlier than 1.487, then you can try manually uninstalling the plugin. As some people point out in the comments, this may not work on some platforms (in those cases, upgrade to at least 1.487 so that you can use the official uninstall feature).
To manually uninstall a plugin, stop Hudson/Jenkins, go to your HUDSON_HOME/plugins directory and remove both the .hpi file and the folder with the same name. So, if you were going to remove the CVS plugin, you would remove both the cvs.hpi file and the cvs directory.
After that, restart Hudson/Jenkins and the plugin won't be there anymore.
Jenkins 1.487 adds a UI for uninstalling plugins: JENKINS-3070
Deleting the <plugin>.hpi file and corresponding <plugin>-plugin directory will effectively remove the plugin.
However, if you have configured parameters that belong to the plugin within your jobs your Hudson or tomcat logs may contain *CannotResolveClassException: hudson.plugins ... * exceptions because it attempts to load the plugin. This can result in build failures even if build is successful.
To fix that,
go to the job configuration and save it again. This should get rid of the plugin reference
if not, go into the hudson home jobs directory and open the config.xml found under the folder named after the job and remove the reference to the plugin
restart hudson
Hudson Plugins explains that some core plugins ("Tier 1" plugins, as they are called) are shipped with Hudson itself, and I assume cannot be deleted therefore.
You can disable it using the Jenkins ยป Plugin Manager. Go to Installed tab and untick the plugins you want to uninstall and restart Jenkins. Though it does not unintall, at least keeps it away from appearing from configuration pages..
My NAnt builds run fine locally on a developer machine, and locally on the command line of the Hudson server, but they will not run in my configured Hudson project.
The console output when I run a Build via the Hudson web UI is similar to the following :
Started by user anonymous [workspace]
$ sh -xe
C:\WINDOWS\TEMP\hudson8104357939096562606.sh
C:\WINDOWS\TEMP\hudson8104357939096562606.sh:
fork failed: no error [1] Archiving
artifacts Finished: SUCCESS
I have another project configured properly that runs fine so I know the NAnt plugin is setup properly in Hudson, and that NAnt is on the system path.
Can anyone suggest possible causes as to why this build won't run?
The problematic build may be configured to Execute a Shell script, rather than Execute a Windows Batch file.
Copy the command from the existing build step (the Execute Shell Script) and remove the step. Then add a new step to Execute a windows Batch File and paste the command.
Trigger the build and observe the results.
(I asked and answered this since it took me quite a while to figure out how I had mis-configured this particular build. Hopefully it'll save time or give ideas to other people trouble-shooting automation..)