Jenkins is getting permission denied errors when running maven
Use ls -al
to display permissions of files.
See this link for more information.
Read the service startup script to check the name of the user that Jenkins is running as.
less /etc/init.d/jenkins
You may have manually installed jenkins to a Java EE container such as tomcat6.If this is the case, you should use:
less /etc/init.d/tomcat6