Not sure where you've heard there are problems with using Jenkins and processes that start GUIs when using a service - all you should need to do is make sure that the service has had the "interact with desktop" turned on which (if I recall correctly means that you need an actual user account to run it as - as opposed to the "local system account" option)
Sorry for being hazy but it has been a while and not in front of my machine at the moment. Richard On 2:40AM, Tue, 19/05/2015 newInHere <michael.scheur...@zf.com> wrote: > Hello Jenkins Users, > > im using jenkins on windows and i´ve read when jenkins is running as a > windows service, it´s not possible to spawn proccesses correctly which > have GUI´s. > > So i deactivated jenkins as windows service and i´ve created a batch to > start Jenkins. > The batch itself works and jenkins will´be started. But now i have a > complete empty jenkins. It looks like i´ve completly reinstalled jenkins. > When i terminate the batch and start jenkins as windows service again, all > my settings and jobs are existing. > > Is it possible to take the same configuration of the windows-service when > i start jenkins via batch ? Maybe i´ve overead something.. > > Thank you very much ! > > > > My batch for starting jenkins (the batch is also in included > in $JENKINS-HOME Dir ): > > > *SET BASE=C:\APP\Tools\jenkins%BASE%\jre\bin\java > -Djava.net.preferIPv4Stack=true -Xrs -Xmx256m -jar "%BASE%\jenkins.war" > --httpPort=8080* > > > *Links:* > Infos for starting Jenkins as windows service: > > https://wiki.jenkins-ci.org/display/JENKINS/Installing+Jenkins+as+a+Windows+service > Infos for starting Jenkins via commandline: > https://wiki.jenkins-ci.org/display/JENKINS/Starting+and+Accessing+Jenkins > > Infos to this isssue with processes that launches Gui´s are in following > links: > > http://stackoverflow.com/questions/18906753/jenkins-windows-slave-service-does-not-interact-with-desktop > > http://stackoverflow.com/questions/17216923/how-to-launch-run-exe-console-gui-from-powershell-within-jenkins-ci > > > > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Jenkins Users" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to jenkinsci-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/jenkinsci-users/6b933ca4-0990-4fef-992f-4f61f046c631%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/jenkinsci-users/6b933ca4-0990-4fef-992f-4f61f046c631%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Jenkins Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to jenkinsci-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/jenkinsci-users/CAMui946H95Ez7z%3DbyKmt2PD-%2BJ3e6OPOVOLK2aJ8ozOweqf%2Bag%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
