How to restart Jenkins manually?

Answer 1

If you installed as a rpm or deb, then service jenkins restart will work also.

Answer 2

If nothing works then find the Jenkins process by

ps aux | grep java

and then kill it:

kill -9 [PID]

sudo service jenkins start

Edit : Look for the java process which is related to jenkins

Answer 3

To restart Jenkins manually, you can use either of the following commands (by entering their URL in a browser):

(jenkins_url)/safeRestart - Allows all running jobs to complete. New jobs will remain in the queue to run after the restart is complete.

(jenkins_url)/restart - Forces a restart without waiting for builds to complete.

Answer 4

If you are running Jenkins as a server on a Windows machine, then open Task Manager and switch to the service tab. Search for Jenkins and restart it.

Answer 5

Windows

Run services.msc and restart:

Answer 6

If it is in a Docker container, you can just restart your container. Let's assume the container name is jenkins, so you can do:

docker restart jenkins

Or

docker stop jenkins
docker start jenkins