How to 'Discard old builds' without running job?

[David Aldrich]

Hi

 

We have a large job that has no 'Discard old builds' setting.

 

I want to set 'Discard old builds' to a sensible value and action it, to delete some old builds, without actually running the job.  Is that possible?

 

Best regards

 

David

 

[Alex Domoradov]

You can use jenkins cli

java -jar jenkins-cli.jar -s http://jenkins.example.net:8080/ delete-builds LARGE_JOB BUILD_NUMBER

for e.g.

java -jar jenkins-cli.jar -s http://jenkins.example.net:8080/ delete-builds test-job 10-20

[David Aldrich]

Hi Alex

 

Thanks for your reply.

 

$ java -jar /var/lib/jenkins/war/WEB-INF/jenkins-cli.jar -s http://localhost:8090/jenkins/ delete-builds Check_svn_config 1514-1515

 

ERROR: No such job 'Check_svn_config'

 

I do have a job called 'Check_svn_config'. It’s in a certain folder. Do I have to specify a path for it?

 

Best regards

 

David

 

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[Alex Domoradov]

You can get a list of jobs with the following command

# java -jar jenkins-cli.jar -s http://localhost:8090/ list-jobs

[David Aldrich]

Hi Alex

 

This isn’t working for me. I see:

 

$ java -jar /var/lib/jenkins/war/WEB-INF/jenkins-cli.jar -s http://localhost:8090/jenkins/ list-jobs --username=daldrich

Check_svn_config

 

$ java -jar /var/lib/jenkins/war/WEB-INF/jenkins-cli.jar -s http://localhost:8090/jenkins/ delete-builds Check_svn_config 1514-1515 --username=daldrich

 

ERROR: No such job 'Check_svn_config'

 

Any idea why please?

 

David

 

 

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[Alex Domoradov]

It's a really strange. What version of jenkins are you using?

[David Aldrich]

1.656

[Alex Domoradov]

Just for test - rename the job just to "test" for example and try again

[David Aldrich]

Got the same result:

 

ERROR: No such job 'test'

[Daniel Beck]

> On 19.04.2016, at 17:06, David Aldrich <David....@EMEA.NEC.COM> wrote:
>
> Any idea why please?

Use SSH key based authentication. Known bug with passwords when anon does not have read access to the job.

[Alex Domoradov]

Hmm, but he had used "--username=daldrich"

[Daniel Beck]

> On 20.04.2016, at 08:23, Alex Domoradov <alex...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hmm, but he had used "--username=daldrich"

That's my point. It doesn't work like it should.

[David Aldrich]

Hi Daniel

> Use SSH key based authentication. Known bug with passwords when anon does
> not have read access to the job.

Thanks for your reply. Could you please give me a pointer how to use SSH key based authentication? I'm running the CLI on the Jenkins master - it is accessing localhost.

Best regards

David

[Alex Domoradov]

You have to add public key at user profile page

http://jenkins.example.net:8080/user/user_name/configure

[Daniel Beck]

> On 20.04.2016, at 09:40, David Aldrich <David....@EMEA.NEC.COM> wrote:
>
> Thanks for your reply. Could you please give me a pointer how to use SSH key based authentication? I'm running the CLI on the Jenkins master - it is accessing localhost.

https://wiki.jenkins-ci.org/display/JENKINS/Jenkins+CLI#JenkinsCLI-1.419andlater

[David Aldrich]

Hi Daniel

Thanks for the link, we're struggling to set-up the keys, possibly because we are connecting to Jenkins from the same machine that it is running on. Anyway, we are perservering.

I did find your statement confusing:

>Use SSH key based authentication. Known bug with passwords when anon does not have read access to the job.

>> Hmm, but he had used "--username=daldrich"

>That's my point. It doesn't work like it should.

So your point is that even non-anonymous access, that does have read access to the job, has the bug?

Best regards

David

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