smokeTestRelease.py should be able to pass cmdline test args to 'ant test', e.g. "-Dtests.jettyConnector=Socket"; also, "ant nightly-smoke" should be able to pass these args to smokeTestRelease.py

SOLR-4189 added sensitivity to sysprop tests.jettyConnector to allow setting test mode Jetty to use Socket connector instead of the default SelectChannel connector.

New module lucene/replicator is running into the same problem, failing 100% of the time when running under 'ant nightly-smoke' on ASF Jenkins on FreeBSD.

At present there's no way from smokeTestRelease.py, or from "ant nightly-smoke", to pass through this sysprop (or any other).

rcmuir wrote on dev@l.o.a about one of the replicator module's failures on FreeBSD:

This is a jenkins setup/test harness issue.

there needs to be a way for the jetty connector sysprop to be passed
all the way thru to ant test running from the smoketester.