I installed it through apt-get what I noticed was, first time when I installed jenkins, I saw the jenkins home dir created at /var/lib/jenkins but when I upgraded I saw that it got installed under /home/rnb/jenkins, where rnb was the user logged in (executing apt-get).
-- Bhushana On Mon, Sep 3, 2012 at 10:33 PM, Gábor Garami <[email protected]> wrote: > How did you deployed jenkins? Via packages of pkg.jenkins-ci.org or via > manual deployment (custom init script, what runs war, or something)? > > What is the current home dir of jenkins user? You can discover it with > "finger jenkins" command (maybe you need to install the finger package). > > Garami Gábor > [email protected] > Skype: hron84 > Tel: +36 20 235 9621 > > Sent from my T-Mobile G2 > Ezt a levelet telefonról adták fel, ékezethibákat tartalmazhat. > > 2012.09.03. 13:16, "R N" <[email protected]> ezt írta: > >> Hi, >> I had deployed jenkins (version 1.478) to build a git repository, >> polling the repo for changes. It was all working fine for more than 2 weeks. >> Over the weekend the server went down because of a power failure and after >> that I am not seeing the plugins and the job configuration that I earlier >> had. I had restarted the service multiple times before this and had seen the >> services working as expected. >> >> I later upgraded to the latest version 1.479 and observed that this time >> the jenkins folder was created under my home directory and not at >> /var/lib/jenkins. Earlier installation was under /var/lib and this time only >> a dummy directory got created under /var/lib. >> >> did anything change in the installation path in the new version...? >> >> Any clue on the behavior I saw after system restart....? is it possible >> that after the systems restart it started working out of my home directory >> rather than earlier jenkins home dir at /var/lib/jenkins...? >> >> OS: Ubuntu >> Version: 1.478 >> Plugins: git, ssh, ssh-publish, extended-email >> >> -- >> R N
