Starting Jenkins via commandline and use configuration of the windows service

[newInHere]

Hello Jenkins Users,

im using jenkins on windows and i´ve read when jenkins is running as a windows service, it´s not possible to spawn proccesses correctly which have GUI´s.

So i deactivated jenkins as windows service and i´ve created a batch to start Jenkins.

The batch itself works and jenkins will´be started. But now i have a complete empty jenkins. It looks like i´ve completly reinstalled jenkins.

When i terminate the batch and start jenkins as windows service again, all my settings and jobs are existing.

Is it possible to take the same configuration of the windows-service when i start jenkins via batch ? Maybe i´ve overead something.. 

Thank you very much !

My batch for starting jenkins (the batch is also in included in $JENKINS-HOME Dir ):

SET BASE=C:\APP\Tools\jenkins
%BASE%\jre\bin\java -Djava.net.preferIPv4Stack=true -Xrs -Xmx256m -jar "%BASE%\jenkins.war" --httpPort=8080

Links:

Infos for starting Jenkins as windows service:

https://wiki.jenkins-ci.org/display/JENKINS/Installing+Jenkins+as+a+Windows+service

Infos for starting Jenkins via commandline:

https://wiki.jenkins-ci.org/display/JENKINS/Starting+and+Accessing+Jenkins

Infos to this isssue with processes that launches Gui´s are in following links:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/18906753/jenkins-windows-slave-service-does-not-interact-with-desktop

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/17216923/how-to-launch-run-exe-console-gui-from-powershell-within-jenkins-ci

[Richard Bywater]

Not sure where you've heard there are problems with using Jenkins and processes that start GUIs when using a service - all you should need to do is make sure that the service has had the "interact with desktop" turned on which (if I recall correctly means that you need an actual user account to run it as - as opposed to the "local system account" option)

Sorry for being hazy but it has been a while and not in front of my machine at the moment.

Richard

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[newInHere]

Thank you for your quick advice. Unfortunately i can´t run the service with the local user account on the jenkins server and so it´s not possible to activate the "interact with desktop" but thanks for your help, i haven´t known that before.

So is it possible to run jenkins from commanline with the settings / configuration of jenkins windows service ?

Thanks

Michael

[newInHere]

Ok i have solved my problem to run jenkins via cmd with the settings from the jenkins service. By the way i use Windows 7 i haven´t mentioned that.

If you run Jenkins as a windwos service all Configrations, Jobs and Plugins are installed directly in the %JENKINS_HOME% Dir (e.g "C:\ProgramFiles\Jenkins").

If you run Jenkins via Commandline there will be created an Configuration Dir in "C:\Users\<USER_NAME>\.jenkins". Within this dir there are created subdirs for plugins, jobs etc. , too.

So i´ve synchronized all dir and files in "C:\Users\<USER_NAME>\.jenkins". with the content of these files and dirs in %JENKINS_HOME% Dir and it works for me.