Ah...I encountered this same problem. In my environment, I have the master/slave configuration.
For a workaround, I had Jenkins call this script on the slave machine. For example, let's call your script pg_cluster.sh I would place this script on the slave machine and in my Jenkins job, I issued the following command: ssh <slave machine> pg_cluster.sh From: jenkinsci-users@googlegroups.com [mailto:jenkinsci-users@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Varghese Renny Sent: Tuesday, June 26, 2012 8:16 AM To: jenkinsci-users@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Re: Re: jenkins java.outofmemory:permGen space error #!/bin/sh pid=$(pidof postgres) echo $pid kill $pid pg_ctlcluster 8.4 main start Actually this shell script is working if i execute like bash killpostgres.sh But inside the jenkins it's showing error like sudo: no tty present and no askpass program specified sudo: no tty present and no askpass program specified Sorry, try again. sudo: no tty present and no askpass program specified sudo: no tty present and no askpass program specified Sorry, try again. sudo: no tty present and no askpass program specified sudo: no tty present and no askpass program specified Sorry, try again. sudo: 3 incorrect password attempts Thanks
