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

Adding on to what has been already answered by Guna Sekaran. Jenkins need the user jenkins to be present in order to run the jenkins as a service.

To add user fire 'useradd jenkins' as root and fire 'passwd jenkins' as root before starting Jenkins as a service.