Jenkins And NodeJS Plugin - Permission Denied Error=13

Question

I\'m running the latest version of Jenkins (v 1.563) and Node (0.10.28).

I have a Java project that builds fine.

When I add a pre

Answer 1

Fixed it without a sudo; I suppose that running Jenkins under root is very unsafe.

Here are the working settings:

/var/lib/jenkins/tools should be owned by jenkins:jenkins:

drwxr-xr-x   6 jenkins jenkins      4096 May 12 15:12 tools

If you need any nodejs package installed globally (for example, grunt), the easier way is to avoid jenkins window Global npm packages to install (it will need root permissions), but run this in linux console:

sudo npm install -g grunt

It will install grunt for everyone and Jenkins will be able to use it during building process.