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

ERROR: Linux / Centos:

Job for jenkins.service failed because the control process exited with error code. See "systemctl status jenkins.service" and "journalctl -xe" for details.

Solution:

• Edit the Jenkins init file by doing

  sudo vi /etc/init.d/jenkins
  

• Add your own Java path, for example:

  /opt/oracle/product/java/jdk1.8.0_45/bin/java
  

• Restart the service:

  sudo service jenkins start
  sudo service jenkins status
  sudo service jenkins stop