Hi,
I’m updating Jenkins job config.xml via a python script which works fine. But upon reloading the configuration from disk, the changes are not picked up. The job in question resides in a sub-directory, under the $JENKINS_HOME/jobs directory. If I create the job in the top level $JENKINS_HOME/jobs directory and make changes to it, these changes are then picked up in the configuration reload.
How can I get Jenkins to pick up config changes in sub-directories?
Thanks in advance
Jenkins setup:
Jenkins: 2.528.1
OS: Linux - 6.1.150-174.273.amzn2023.x86_64
Java: 21.0.8 - Eclipse Adoptium (OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM)
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