I want the Jenkins agent to build and start the server.
I do this by specifying how to build and start the server in the Build step of the project configuration in Bash
echo "Installing dependencies"
npm install
echo "Starting server"
./startscript.sh 3000 & #this script will start the server with specified port
Why the ampsersand in /startscript.sh 3000 &
?
I noticed that without the ampersand &
in the last command, the server is started as expected (I can access it from browser). However, the Jenkins build hangs and cannot finish (because the script starts the server and won't return until the server is terminated).
So I tried to fix this with adding the ampersand to make the script process runs in background. With this, Jenkins job successfully ends the build.
But adding the ampersand still doesn't fix The server process is still terminated (it actually started because I checked the log and saw that it was started). I think that this might be because when Jenkins finishes building, it exits the shell and sends the SIGHUP to attached background jobs.
Adding nohub still doesn't fix
Running the last command with nohup ./startscript.sh 3000 &
still doesn't fix the bug.
Question
How to make the agent build then start the server.
Note
The console output of Jenkins builds shows both the command and the output of it (like the behaviour of the -x flag of the shell). And the last command was shown like this:
+ nohup ./startscript.sh 3000
Finished: SUCCESS
It doesn't show the ampersand &
... So I don't know if the ampersand was actually correctly interpreted during the run.