Mark Waite
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Since the transition to systemd, we no longer read the contents of /etc/sysconfig/jenkins on Red Hat Enterprise Linux systems. The changes that a user can make with systemd are either modifying the environment variable or they are modifying a Java property. Since those two cases are already covered, let's not mention the different ways of starting the controller. We don't actively promote the use of alternate web containers and setting the environment variable in the web container admin tool is already covered by the simpler statement that the environment variable needs to be set. We absolutely should not suggest that they modify the contents of the jenkins.war file. That type of change will likely be erased on the next upgrade. https://github.com/jenkins-infra/jenkins.io/pull/6409 review process showed this issue.
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