How to install Hudson as a service on OS X?

Question

Running hudson it is easy but currently the documentation is missing the tutorial for installing an running hudson as a daemon/service on OS X.

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Answer 1

The tiny solution I had (which also starts at login) was this: First run hudson manually once (so it builds it's .hudson dir). create a hudson.command file somewhere on your machine in OSX with content a little like this:

nohup java -jar .hudson/hudson.war --httpPort=8080 &

Then, open up system preferences, select your user, and then Login Items. Click the "+" button, and you'll be able to select the command with finder.

Next time you log in, hudson will have started.

Disadvantages:

• Hudson has no specific user - it's just you
• hudson is on port 8080
• Hudson restarts mean finding the process, killing it and starting the hudson.command file again.
• Hudson starts only once a user has logged in.