Thanks for the reference and this seems like it might help to do the trick, by leaving processes running. Is this the preferred method in Jenkins? I was thinking there might have been a plugin or something I was missing. However, I am also running on Windows, and the Jenkins.exe is a service. Not sure where I would add these options.
On Monday, July 28, 2014 11:59:44 AM UTC-4, Daniel Beck wrote: > > https://wiki.jenkins-ci.org/display/JENKINS/ProcessTreeKiller > > On 28.07.2014, at 17:00, Steven Scott <[email protected] <javascript:>> > wrote: > > > I am new to Jenkins and love the tool, but I am having one problem > > that I can not imagine is unique to me, and I have not found a plugin > > to deal with the issue. > > > > The problem I have is that I have an application running on server > > that provides emulation data for our tests. In order to update this > > application, it must be stopped, files updated, then I want to restart > > it afterwards. > > > > I have a Jenkins job that will copy the appropriate files over, and I > > use the PSKILL utility via a batch file to stop the application when > > the build launches. The problem I have, is restarting the > > application. Using a batch file does not work, even if I run 'start > > application.exe' since the termination of the build process, seems to > > kill these processes as well. > > > > Any suggestions would be appreciated. Thanks in advance. > > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "Jenkins Users" group. > > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send > an email to [email protected] <javascript:>. > > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Jenkins Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
