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

I am using jenkins 1.639 as a war deployed on tomcat 7.0.67 . My JENKINS_HOME is set to /home/hims/jenkins

This is the entry of my setenv.sh file under /tomcat/bin directory

export CATALINA_OPTS="-DJENKINS_HOME=/home/hims/jenkins"

I hope this helps.