Permission denied when trying to execute behat in jenkins

Question

I try to execute behat in my jenkins server (similar to this).

My build xml:

<target name="behat" description="Execute the behat tests">
    <exec command="${basedir}/bin/behat --profile jenkins -c ${basedir}/config/behat.yml"  />       
</target>

(Yes, my bin is at ./bin and not ./vendor/bin)

However I get this error:

var/lib/jenkins/jobs/defTest/workspace/build.xml:116: Execute failed: java.io.IOException: Cannot run program "/var/lib/jenkins/jobs/defTest/workspace/bin/behat": error=13, Keine Berechtigung
at java.lang.ProcessBuilder.start(ProcessBuilder.java:1041)
at java.lang.Runtime.exec(Runtime.java:617)
at org.apache.tools.ant.taskdefs.Execute$Java13CommandLauncher.exec(Execute.java:862)
at org.apache.tools.ant.taskdefs.Execute.launch(Execute.java:481)
at org.apache.tools.ant.taskdefs.Execute.execute(Execute.java:495)
at org.apache.tools.ant.taskdefs.ExecTask.runExecute(ExecTask.java:631)
at org.apache.tools.ant.taskdefs.ExecTask.runExec(ExecTask.java:672)
at org.apache.tools.ant.taskdefs.ExecTask.execute(ExecTask.java:498)
at org.apache.tools.ant.UnknownElement.execute(UnknownElement.java:291)
at sun.reflect.GeneratedMethodAccessor5.invoke(Unknown Source)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:606)
at org.apache.tools.ant.dispatch.DispatchUtils.execute(DispatchUtils.java:106)
at org.apache.tools.ant.Task.perform(Task.java:348)
at org.apache.tools.ant.Target.execute(Target.java:390)
at org.apache.tools.ant.Target.performTasks(Target.java:411)
at org.apache.tools.ant.Project.executeSortedTargets(Project.java:1399)
at org.apache.tools.ant.Project.executeTarget(Project.java:1368)
at org.apache.tools.ant.helper.DefaultExecutor.executeTargets(DefaultExecutor.java:41)
at org.apache.tools.ant.Project.executeTargets(Project.java:1251)
at org.apache.tools.ant.Main.runBuild(Main.java:809)
at org.apache.tools.ant.Main.startAnt(Main.java:217)
at org.apache.tools.ant.launch.Launcher.run(Launcher.java:280)
at org.apache.tools.ant.launch.Launcher.main(Launcher.java:109)

Caused by: java.io.IOException: error=13, Keine Berechtigung at java.lang.UNIXProcess.forkAndExec(Native Method) at java.lang.UNIXProcess.(UNIXProcess.java:135) at java.lang.ProcessImpl.start(ProcessImpl.java:130) at java.lang.ProcessBuilder.start(ProcessBuilder.java:1022) ... 23 more

("Keine Berechtigung" is German for "Permission denied") I tried to chmod the behat file to 777 but as I pull from a mercurial repository my changes seem always to be undone.

Do you have any ideas how to fix my problem?

Answer 1

Add a prebuild shell task:

chmod 777 /PATH_TO_BEHAT/bin/behat