How to install and configure Hudson on solaris 10?

1) Create the user and group in solaris to run Hudson service.

groupadd hudgroup

useradd -g hudgroup -d /home/hudadm -m hudadm

Note: hudadm is the username and hudgroup is the group name which will run hudson process.

2) set JAVA_HOME env variable

export JAVA_HOME=/usr/j2se/bin

3) copy the below file hudson.xml to /var/svc/manifest/application. We are going to run hudson as part of solaris SMF. We are going to define it as an application in SMF.

eout_seconds="0"/>

Hudson Continuous Build Server

4) import the hudson.xml file to SMF repository.

svccfg import /var/svc/manifest/application/hudson.xml

5) Start the service.

svcadm enable svc:/application/hudson:default

6) Check whether service is running properly or not.

bash-3.00# svcs -l svc:/application/hudson:default

fmri svc:/application/hudson:default

name Hudson Continuous Build Server

enabled true

state online

next_state none

state_time Sat Oct 24 11:57:23 2009

logfile /var/svc/log/application-hudson:default.log

restarter svc:/system/svc/restarter:default

contract_id 98

dependency require_all/none svc:/milestone/multi-user-server (online)

7) If it shows online in "state" and "dependency" then hudson is running fine.

Note:

Above hudson.xml file has been written hudson listen on 8090 port. So use http://hostname:8090/ to start hudson in any browser. Use xmllint to parse the hudson.xml file in case if you need to write your own xml file and compile it.