>>Workspaces Jenkins considers "unused" are wiped periodically. While this is >>intended to be safe, i.e., never delete the last workspace, or workspaces of >>running builds, it's not impossible that "active" workspaces are caught in >>rare circumstances. Check the workspace cleanup log in your Jenkins home to >>see whether this happens to you, or enable detailed (FINE) logging for the >>logger "hudson.model.WorkspaceCleanupThread". > >Thanks for the info, that's what seems to be happening. I'll see if I can >check this in case it happens again. Is this something that can be >influenced in the settings or is it completely automatic? Would I need >to run a job more often to prevent this? Or I could put all my files in >a different directory outside the workspace and change into it in >the job. That way there's nothing to delete in the configured workspace. > > >This is completely automated and invisible beyond log entries (probably not >great). While there are some possible approaches to stop Jenkins from doing >that when it occurs with regular Jenkins jobs, your situation is different. In >your particular case, you're using what amounts to a Jenkins-managed resource >outside Jenkins. The cleanest solution is what you suggest: to stop doing >that, run your cron job somewhere else, and limit Jenkins workspace use to >actual Jenkins jobs.
Well, I do use Jenkins to collect the results of my otherwise started script, keep the history, send emails and so on. But I understand that it knows nothing of it until the job is started to get the results. I'll rearrange my layout to have s separate directory for Jenkins. Thanks for your help. bye Fabi -- 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/20220411125351.D3AC24B6A594%40macserver.private.
