Jenkins fails when running “service start jenkins”

Question

I installed jenkins on Cnetos 7 using the following:

sudo wget -O /etc/yum.repos.d/jenkins.repo http://pkg.jenkins.io/redhat-stable/jenkins.repo
sudo rpm --impor         


        

Answer 1

~>$ sudo vim /etc/rc.d/init.d/jenkins

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candidates="

/etc/alternatives/java

/usr/lib/jvm/java-1.8.0/bin/java

/usr/lib/jvm/jre-1.8.0/bin/java

/usr/lib/jvm/java-1.7.0/bin/java

/usr/lib/jvm/jre-1.7.0/bin/java

/usr/bin/java

/usr/java/jdk1.8.0_162/bin/java ##add your java path

"

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