config.xml getting replaced on jenkins restart

Question

I want to disable security in jenkins. I stopped the service, edited $JENKINS_HOME/config.xml as given in https://wiki.jenkins.io/display/JENKINS/Disable+security and https://wiki.jenkins.io/display/JENKINS/Disable+security

But whenever i restart, the content is getting replaced with initial value. I tried doing the same in ~/.jenkins directory also. But still everytime i restart, its getting replaced. Not able to understand why this is happening.

Any help would be appreciated. Thanks in advance.

How are you restarting your server??? Are you following safe restart procedures? — SV Madhava Reddy, Jan 19 '18 at 08:27
I'm having the same issue. I've restarted using systmectl and the /restart rest command. It resets my config.xml — Wanderer, Dec 07 '18 at 19:13
@Sarath. No. I've started tracking this issue here as well. https://issues.jenkins-ci.org/browse/JENKINS-55088 — Wanderer, Dec 10 '18 at 16:40
@Sarath Don't use system ctl, instead use /restart. Try with this and let me know once. You can use /reload to reload the configuration also without restarting it. — SV Madhava Reddy, Dec 11 '18 at 06:34
I tried changing the xml while running jenkins itself. Its working fine. Then I tried reload config from disk option, it reloaded and its working with new values. So you are doing somewhere wrong. debug it. — SV Madhava Reddy, Dec 13 '18 at 09:40
[https://stackoverflow.com/a/34142999/5003256](https://stackoverflow.com/a/34142999/5003256) Take a look at this. — SV Madhava Reddy, Dec 13 '18 at 09:51

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Mar 06 '19 at 07:21

had the same issue. im not 100% sure, but in multiple tries i found that:

cp -f edited_config.xml /var/lib/jenkins/config.xml
sudo systemctl restart jenkins.service
sudo ./install_plugins.sh $(cat plugins.txt | tr '\n' ' ')
sudo systemctl restart jenkins.service

bug did not happened

but when i didnt restart jenkins between config file editing and install plugins, i sew this bug.

cp -f edited_config.xml /var/lib/jenkins/config.xml
sudo ./install_plugins.sh $(cat plugins.txt | tr '\n' ' ')
sudo systemctl restart jenkins.service

hope it is helpful

config.xml getting replaced on jenkins restart

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