How can I find out what user Hudson is running under

Question

Hey

I've taken over handling Hudson from a contractor and I'm wanting to know what user the hudson is running under.

I need this because I've made a new job which will sync a folder with another folder on a mapped drive. This mapped drive is only available to the build user (user as in what you log into windows with, not log into hudson).

The job itself is getting a 'Failed to copy' error in the log which I believe is because i'm using the wrong windows user and there is no mapped drive? Or would this cause another error?

Regards

Answer 1

If linux:

ps -ef | grep hudson

The owner of the process will be shown (along with other info).

Answer 2

It obviously runs as a service, so check what services are defined and what user they run as.

You can also use the task manager and check the "Show processes from all users". There should be a Hudson.exe, check what username it is running under.

I just found out about tasklist and taskkill. So you can also run the following command:

tasklist /fi "IMAGENAME eq hudson.exe"

Answer 3

Figure out what web server or servlet container (such as Tomcat) Hudson is deployed on. Hudson is a web application and will use the same user as the web server it is deployed on.