In Ubuntu, how do I change the home path of Jenkins using the CLI?

[Cleofas]

In the Jenkins web interface, under Home directory (Dashboard -> Mange Jenkins -> Configure System), the help section says the following:

• "By default, Jenkins stores all of its data in this directory on the file system", referring to /var/lib/jenkins
• "Edit the JENKINS_HOME variable in your Jenkins configuration file (e.g. /etc/sysconfig/jenkins on Red Hat Linux)"

However, my etc directory doesn't have a directory called sysconfig.

Running the following command returns a lot of files among which only the following seems relevant:

find ~/ -type f -name "config.xml"

/var/lib/jenkins/config.xml

The file contains the following field:

${JENKINS_HOME}/workspace/${ITEM_FULL_NAME}

Is this the correct field to edit? If so, which syntax should I follow while entering the desired path?

[jeanid]

This question was already https://stackoverflow.com/questions/13192322/how-to-change-home-directory-of-jenkins on Stack Overflow. I'll copy the top answer here, but there are several other answers over there that you may find useful:

For me on Jenkins 2.7.2 on RHEL 7.2 after already starting jenkins and configuring a build, I needed to:

1. Change the jenkins user's home directory

   sudo su -
   service jenkins stop
   vi /etc/passwd
   #  change the /var/lib/jenkins to /home/jenkins or whatever 
   

2. Change the setting in the start script to also find it

   vi /etc/sysconfig/jenkins
   #   change the JENKINS_HOME to /home/jenkins or what ever
   

3. Copy all the data to the new location (eg: /home/jenkins)

   cd /home
   cp -Rf /var/lib/jenkins .
   chown -R jenkins:jenkins *
   

4. Start it back up

   service jenkins start
   

And that seems to have done it for me.