How can I point Jenkins to another .jenkins home directory?

Question

I have the working /.jenkins folder under a specific user in home on Linux. I want to start Jenkins with another user, but re-use the .jenkins folder of the other user. How

Answer 1

Here are the options you have:

a) Assuming you're deploying Jenkins into Tomcat,you can do the following:

In your catalina.home/conf/localhost/jenkins.xml

b) You can export the JENKINS_HOME=toWhateveryouwant as mentioned by Harsha in the previous post

c) You can extend your JAVA_OPTS params and add -DJENKINS_HOME=/path/to/jenkins_home/ as described here: Jenkins Mailing list

Good luck!