Comments on: Hudson love

By: adamarmistead

adamarmistead — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 21:32:36 +0000

The setup here works for me mostly but when I try to run groovy scripts or set up hudson managed security or anything that runs a groovy script i get a ClassNotFoundException for the groovy classes. Everything works perfectly if i disable the security manager in tomcat so I must still be missing some security setting. Anyone know how to fix this error?

By: Regis Desgroppes

Regis Desgroppes — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 09:28:16 +0000

Sorry for the multiple posts but WordPress doesn’t seem to allow refactoring

By: Regis Desgroppes

Regis Desgroppes — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 09:26:31 +0000

Re-hum…
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/etc/tomcat6/Catalina/localhost/hudson.xml (custom location of .war)
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docBase=”/srv/hudson/hudson.war”
privileged=”true”
path=”/hudson”
allowLinking=”true”
swallowOutput=”true”
>
name=”HUDSON_HOME”
value=”/srv/hudson”
type=”java.lang.String”
override=”false”/>

By: Regis Desgroppes

Regis Desgroppes — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 09:24:09 +0000

Hum…
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/etc/tomcat6/Catalina/localhost/hudson.xml (custom location of .war)
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docBase=”/srv/hudson/hudson.war”
privileged=”true”
path=”/hudson”
allowLinking=”true”
swallowOutput=”true”
>

By: Regis Desgroppes

Regis Desgroppes — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 09:20:34 +0000

OK, seems it was due to the presence of the xml version & encoding. Removed them so you can finally see the content:
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/etc/tomcat6/Catalina/localhost/hudson.xml (custom location of .war)
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By: Regis Desgroppes

Regis Desgroppes — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 09:17:46 +0000

Oops, sth wa missing in previsous post:

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/etc/tomcat6/Catalina/localhost/hudson.xml (custom location of .war)
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By: Regis Desgroppes

Regis Desgroppes — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 09:15:15 +0000

Thanks a lot for all your contribs.

In return, let me share my config files:

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/etc/tomcat6/policy.d/99hudson.policy (for both extraction and runtime)
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grant codeBase “file:/var/lib/tomcat6/webapps/hudson/-” {
permission java.security.AllPermission;
};
grant codeBase “file:/srv/hudson/-” {
permission java.security.AllPermission;
};
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/etc/tomcat6/Catalina/localhost/hudson.xml (custom location of .war)
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In /etc/tomcat6/server.xml, add URIEncoding=”UTF-8″ to Connector port otherwise, hudson will complain about URI resolution for non-ascii characters. Any other idea to make it hudson specific?
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Dor ssh connections, I had to create a populated .ssh directory in /usr/share/tomcat6. Any other idea to make it hudson specific?

Regards.

By: Magnus Häggström

Magnus Häggström — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 12:40:40 +0000

Instead of disabling tomcat security, a better way is to add, in file /etc/tomcat6/policy.d/50local.policy, the lines:

grant codeBase “file:/var/lib/tomcat6/webapps/hudson/WEB-INF/-” {
permission java.security.AllPermission;
};

By: Martin Altenstedt

Martin Altenstedt — Sun, 28 Dec 2008 12:51:13 +0000

LymphoCite T, I just verified that the installation instructions indeed seem to work fine with Tomcat 6. I updated the post so that you can see exactly what I did. Did you remember to disable the security manager as Julian suggested? What does your Tomcat log say? (/var/log/tomcat6/catalina.*.log)

Are you running on a minimal installation? I can really recommend Ubuntu Jeos, now part of the standard server ISO image. Having your build server running a minimal OS installation is something that I can really recommend, for many reasons.

By: Julian Harty

Julian Harty — Sat, 27 Dec 2008 21:41:40 +0000

Re: LymphoCite T
I had a similar problem on a fresh install of Ubuntu Heron; and ended up disabling TOMCAT security in my startup script. e.g. TOMCAT6_SECURITY=no

You might find the following article (for Tomcat 5.5 but still relevant) useful
http://suereth.blogspot.com/2008/08/ubuntu-dev-server-hudson.html