How to manually Restart / Shutdown Jenkins ?

by KarSho · October 8, 2014

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How to manually Restart / Shutdown Jenkins - steptoinstall.com
If you want to restart or Shutting down your Jenkins manually means, just follow up this article.

For Restart:

http://(jenkins_url)/restart
This restart keyword, force the restart procedure without waiting to complete existing jobs.

but,
http://(jenkins_url)/safeRestart
here safeRestart keyword is allow to complete any existing jobs.

If you installed as a rpm or deb, then following command will be work,
service jenkins restart

On Ubuntu:

when installed through apt-get/dpkg,
$ sudo /etc/init.d/jenkins restart
Usage: /etc/init.d/jenkins {start|stop|status|restart|force-reload}

For safety shutdown Jenkins:

If you want safety shutdown your Jenkins, try below one,
http://(jenkins-server)/exit

You can kill your all process, using kill keyword,
http://(jenkins-server)/kill

Notes:
1) For more commands of Jenkins are available from cli keyword.
http://(jenkins-server)/cli

2) When you install some plugins, it’ll say ‘needs to be restarted’ and it’ll go to ‘shutting down’ mode. Actually it is not real shutdown. It’s a notification to all users that Jenkins is going be restarted soon.

3) If you want to uninstall / remove Jenkins Application just go to here.

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