exit normally when restarted

This makes no sense. I mean, if you set up your system to restart automatically when exiting, sure, but think of how this would need to be documented.

This should have some priority since the /exit URL command is not working.

If this is about JENKINS-34254, it'd be much better to just fix that rather than hack around it.

Meanwhile, you could use the CLI command shutdown to get the same result as /exit if it worked.

Hi,

> This makes no sense. I mean, if you set up your system to restart automatically when exiting, sure, but think of how this would need to be documented.

The documentation simply state:

   -DEXIT_ON_RESTART=true - exit jenkins when restarted instead of re-executing the process.

Another alternative, which is actually the current hack I use:

   -DRESTART_PROGRAM=program - execute this program when restarting, default is argv[0] of jenkins process.

This will enable setting the program to be /bin/true to achieve the same effect.

> If this is about JENKINS-34254,

No it is not, because all the restart features of jenkins (for example post upgrade or plugin update) will not be available also when this issue is fixed.

This bug should be solved regardless to rescue a jenkins that is at the stage of restart with some failure.

Does it makes more sense now?

Thanks!

Got it, thanks for the explanation.

Hi,

I implemented both options (see below), I prefer the exit.

Regards,

Alon

link Support restartCommand configuration
link Support exitOnRestart configuration

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Code changed in jenkins
User: Alon Bar-Lev
Path:
core/src/main/java/hudson/lifecycle/ExitLifecycle.java
http://jenkins-ci.org/commit/jenkins/52ff066b71a1df2f565e46e4f67e4ec8cc5eac3e
Log:
JENKINS-47043 Introduce exit lifecycle to exit instead of restart

If hudson.lifecycle.ExitLifecycle is selected, jenkins will exit when
restart is requested. Exit code is taken out of
jenkins.model.Jenkins.exitCodeOnRestart, default is 5.

This is usable when there is an external watchdog such as SystemD.

SystemD service example:

ExecStart=@/usr/bin/java jenkins $JAVA_OPTIONS -DJENKINS_HOME=${JENKINS_HOME} -Dhudson.lifecycle=hudson.lifecycle.ExitLifecycle -Djenkins.model.Jenkins.exitCodeOnRestart=55 -jar $JENKINS_WAR --debug=${JENKINS_DEBUG_LEVEL} --httpPort=${JENKINS_PORT} --httpListenAddress=${JENKINS_LISTEN_ADDRESS} $JENKINS_ARGS

Signed-off-by: Alon Bar-Lev <alon.barlev@gmail.com>

Code changed in jenkins
User: Oleg Nenashev
Path:
core/src/main/java/hudson/lifecycle/ExitLifecycle.java
http://jenkins-ci.org/commit/jenkins/51817306f74e4f5966a1a056e8c607528aa97435
Log:
Merge pull request #3036 from alonbl/exit-on-restart

JENKINS-47043 Introduce exit lifecycle to exit instead of restart

Compare: https://github.com/jenkinsci/jenkins/compare/3a99c2c6fd08...51817306f74e

It has been released in 2.102