Recently I wrote a Linux like initd script to start/stop my web application.

The script works well when running it in shell of linux. The web application will run in background by daemon.

However I found both daemon and web application(java) exited immediately if I started the script in Jenkins as a shell step of build …

Jenkins supports ssh authentication in CLI.

Below is a command to verify that I am authenticated:

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2java -jar jenkins-cli.jar -s http://myserver/jenkins who-am-i
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4    Authenticated as: myuser
5    Authorities:
6        authenticated

However you still would meet permission error when running groovy script in CLI.

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