Question

I’m trying to start a Cassandra instance (0.8.10) from Jenkins (latest version, 1.463).

Inside a “free-style project” job, I have a “Execute shell” build step, where I have tried a couple of approaches:

.../tools/apache-cassandra-0.8.10/bin/cassandra -f

and

.../tools/apache-cassandra-0.8.10/bin/cassandra

The first approach starts Cassandra ok, but Jenkins doesn’t exit the build and keeps on building. If I stop the build, the Cassandra process dies as well.

The second approach fails because the Cassandra project dies as soon as the build finishes.
I have also tried:

.../tools/apache-cassandra-0.8.10/bin/cassandra -f &

that is kind of lame, and doesn’t work anyway.

Any ideas on how to start Cassandra from Jenkins?

Answer 1

Try using nohup with &. Also pipe stdout and stderr to a file or /dev/null:

nohup .../tools/apache-cassandra-0.8.10/bin/cassandra -f > /dev/null 2>/dev/null &