Jenkins seems to be the target for nohup in a script started via ssh, how can I prevent that?

Question

I am trying to create a Jenkins job that restarts a program that runs all the time on one of our servers.

I specify the following as the command to run:

Answer 1

In the new Pipeline jobs, setting BUILD_ID no longer prevents Jenkins from killing your processes once the job finishes. Instead, you need to set JENKINS_NODE_COOKIE:

sh 'JENKINS_NODE_COOKIE=dontKillMe nohup java NameOfClass &'

See the wiki on ProcessTreeKiller and this comment in the Jenkins Jira for more information.