Problem doing an automated deploy with SSH Exec

[Bogdan Gherca]

Hi guys,

I have a TC build that uses SSH Exec in the following way:

• first it wgets a jar from arfifactory
• then it does a java -jar <JAR_NAME> &. It's a Spring Boot project under that jar.
• the java process starts, which is what I need

However, the build never stops, although I run the process in the background. I also tried running it with nohup and screen without success. Do you have any ideas/workarounds for this specific issue?

Thanks,
Bogdan.

[Bogdan Gherca]

Solved. Apparently, the output of app server process should be redirected to /dev/null or a specific file, anything but STDOUT. Otherwise, the SSH executor will keep collecting output and never exit.

I would like this type of thing to be present or explained somewhere in the docs.

Bogdan.