Don't know how it happens with JNLP, but for Linux machines (over SSH). It will update it automatically, when ever slave.jar is updated on master and connection (ssh) is restarted.
PS: If you see connection logs (on the Jenkins UI), you will see it updating the slave.jar file. Thanks On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 1:03 PM, Diogo Guerra <diogo...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, out setup we have two types of slaves: > - windows through jnlp with a windows service. > - linux with ssh. > > On the windows ones we had to download the jenkins windows version and > configure the jenkins-slave.xml and then we only have the jenkins-slave > service to start and not the jenkins master one. > > On linux we just had to give the ssh credentials and jenkins did its magic. > > Our master runs on CentOS and we update via yum. Now I'm wondering what is > the procedure to update jenkins on slaves? > > On linux we need to re-install via the windows installer? > > What about linux slaves? > -- http://wharpreet.blogspot.com http://linuxgazettes.blogspot.com http://in.linkedin.com/in/wharpreet
