Why don't my migrated Jenkins jobs display after migration from Windows to Linux?

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I recently migrated our windows instance of Jenkins to Linux. This was very easy as I just copied everything from %JENKINS_HOME% to the linux box.

However someone let me know they had their own personal instance of Jenkins that they wanted to rollover to the Linux VM. I copied the jobs folder from their Windows box, to the Linux VM but they dont show up in any of my views (including the ALL view). I also installed the Job Import plugin and it ran successfully as well but I have the same issue.

I'm not sure if I have to modify my config.xml to include these views or if there is another file that I need to merge with my Linux VM. I have also restarted the service and reloaded configuration from disk.

This is on Jenkins 2.0.

Does anyone have any thoughts on what I may have missed?

Did you check the permissions and owner of the job files? I believe they need to have the same owner that your jenkins instance runs under. — TheEllis, Apr 29 '16 at 20:48
Add it as answer TheEllis and accept it Mietzner, might help others with similar issues and it wont sow up as unsolved. — Dominik Gebhart, May 02 '16 at 18:18

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered May 24 '16 at 13:44

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Based on the comment of TheEllis:

The copied job files must have the same owner as the jenkins instance runs under. Furthermore read/write/execute permission for the owner should be set, too.

answered May 24 '16 at 13:44

CSchulz

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If I forget the original owner, how to fix this? – Jirong Hu Mar 22 '17 at 23:32

Why don't my migrated Jenkins jobs display after migration from Windows to Linux?

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