Tomcat script not working when run from Hudson

Question

I'm trying to run a script which stops and starts Tomcat on linux.

When I run it from the command line it works fine. But it does not seem to work when I run the same script from the "Execute Shell" build step in a Jenkins/Hudson job. Jenkins doesn't report any errors but if I try going to the tomcat page then I get a page not found error.

So Jenkins seems able to stop the server, but not bringing it back up.

I'd be grateful for any help.

Answer 1

Try unsetting the BUILD_ID in your 'shell execute' block. You might even not need to use nohup in this case

BUILD_ID=
./your_hudson_script_that_starts_tomcat.sh