How to restart hudson if i have installed like java - jar hudson.war

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Running hudson directly like that runs it under the built-in Winstone web server. You can use some commands that it has to control your app:

I do this:

start:
nohup $JAVA_HOME/bin/java $HUDSON_JAVA_OPTS -jar $HOME/wars/hudson.war --controlPort=8001 > $HOME/logs/hudson.log 2>&1 &

restart:
java -cp $HOME/bin/winstone-0.9.10.jar winstone.tools.WinstoneControl reload: --host=localhost --port=8001

shutdown:
java -cp $HOME/bin/winstone-0.9.10.jar winstone.tools.WinstoneControl reload: --host=localhost --port=8001

You can restart the service as below

Got to /etc/init/ (basically hudson service script resides here)

hudson.sh restart

What about in Windows?

Can you please provide small notes on What are the ways to start - stop hudson in Linux and Windows?

Well in windows you make it as a service is the best bet else from GUI itself you can restart.

Command Line would be like this and here windows istreated as a slave.
sc.exe create HudsonSlave binPath= "C:\WINDOWS\system32\java.exe -jar C:\hudson\slave.jar
-jnlpUrl SERVER:PORT/computer/MACHINE/slave-agent.jnlp" start= auto

This is a very simple version, you can elaborate start scripts which use some program to hide the CMD window, select the good server and try to ping it, get the MACHINE variable with %computername% ,etc...

You can create .bat file
cd d:\Program Files\Hudson
java -DHUDSON_HOME=d:\Hudson -jar hudson.war


or you can use plugins to install as a service


"Install as Windows Service"

Installation Directory=d:\Hudson\.hudson

I got some good links over net as well...

weblogs.java.net/blog/2008/10/08/install...udson-service-redhat
wiki.hudson-ci.org/display/HUDSON/Instal...son+as+a+Unix+daemon