Issue
- When you try to check the status by doing sudo service jenkins status, you get the message jenkins dead but pid file exists.
- Jenkins does not start and the directory /var/logs/jenkins is empty
Environment
- CloudBees Jenkins Enterprise
- Red Hat distribution
Resolution
This might be due to a permission issue.
You need to ensure that the owner of the following paths and everything inside is jenkins:jenkins -> /var/log/jenkins, /var/lib/jenkins, /var/run/jenkins, /var/cache/jenkins
You can check that the jenkins user has the right permission to work under those paths. As an example, for /var/log/jenkins:
$ ls -la /var/log
drwxr-xr-x. 12 root root 4096 Feb 19 15:17 log
$ ls -la /var/log/jenkins
drwxr-x---. 2 jenkins jenkins 4096 Feb 19 15:18 jenkins
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