I've created a custom tool for MRM using a powershell script that I've tested as working on my local machine.
The script has been added as a resource to the tool and I am calling the script by the following command -command ./KeepBuild-RM.ps1 plus the parameters.
I've added the action based on this tool (essentially a pass through to the tool) as the 1st action in the release path.
When the release runs it seems to instantly fail with "The system cannot find the file specified".
When checking the temp location on the server it looks like the tool wasn't copied over as part of the drop.
Does anyone have any idea what might be causing the copy to fail?
The command field should be powershell.exe. The argument field should be -command ./KeepBuild-RM.ps1
If you really put -command ./KeepBuild-RM.ps1 in the command field, it's trying to run exactly that text on the command line.
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I have some trouble keeping alive a background process when launched by TFS.
Usually I use a batch that launch a java server (new window), as long as I keep this window open it works properly.
C:\Users\TFSService\mbs-iot-sdk\osgi\bin\vms\jdk\server.bat
In order to make my process automatic, I include this in TFS. In the step I call a batch that contains the following:
cd C:\Users\TFSService\mbs-iot-sdk\osgi\bin\vms\jdk // necessary to find the batch
start C:\Users\TFSService\mbs-iot-sdk\osgi\bin\vms\jdk\server.bat
In my task manager, I can see in background tasks that java is launched (no new window is opened), exactly as it behaves when launching directly the batch. But after a few seconds, when TFS switches to the next step, it stops.
Then the next step carries on but fails as it requires the server to be launched.
Is there a particular way of doing it in TFS ?
thank you
Alexandre
It's suggest to launch the .bat file from a relative path not directly use cd to hard code the path.
Also recommend you to use Run Batch File task not Run Command Line task to launch the .bat file.
According to your description, seems you are using a run command line task in your build pipeline. Then run the command under the working directory c:\Build_work\5\s, the command cd to C:\Users\TFSService\mbs-iot-sdk\osgi\bin\vms\jdk\ on the build agent, find the server.bat, run the server.bat.
First check if the .bat file is located at the path you are specifying on the build agent. Not sure if the bat file have to run under C:\Users\TFSService\mbs-iot-sdk\osgi\bin\vms\jdk\, guess you are also hard code the path in your server.bat file. Suggest you change all the path to relative path, you could use some built-in variable in TFS.
As for your workaround in comment, seems you want to chain builds in TFS. The official docs literally say "not yet" and have a uservoice in planed. However you could use some workaround, such as create or use other's customize extension (use rest api) to call another build. Detail ways please refer huserben's answer in this question: How to chain builds in TFS 2015?
Note sure you have to go deep into this area for your original issue. Just add some related info in case you are interested or need.
Well,
Just in case someone else goes through the same kind of issue, I found a workaround:
I wish to mix different command line steps, some of them launching Python scripts:
I have one step for launching the server that is required for my testing tool, one step for my testing tool and one Python step for differential testing
I realized that I could embed everything in a Python script.
It can handle server launching process in a separate window (with subprocess), launch my Python part and launch another process for my validation tool.
I have to test the whole chain but, at least, I solved my problem of launching a background process and detach it from TFS
I am writing a script using Null Script which install around 6000 files in INSTALLDIR i.e. C:\ABC folder.
I have done this using
File /r "ABC"
in install section.
It is just a simple extractor (no registry entries and no uninstall.exe created during install).
Now, if I run the same exe again then I want my exe to display a message box to the user while overwriting the files containing the options
Yes,
Yes too all, or
exit the installer
i.e. How WinZip software does while extracting the same zip file in the same location multiple times.
If I set the SetOverwrite value to off then during install (2nd time) my EXE just skips the file installation without notifying the user. Also using IFFILEEXIST I can check a single file or *.* files but cannot do one to one mapping.
Please suggest how can I implement this. If this question is already posted then please send me the link.
Thanks in advance.
It is not possible to get this behavior in NSIS when using File /r. You might be able to pull off something similar by generating the file list at compile time by executing a batch file with !system and then check if each file exists and maybe delete the old one at run-time but you are not going to get the dialog without a custom plugin. NSIS itself only supports basic Abort/Retry/Cancel and Yes/No dialogs.
If you only want to use free tools, why not just use 7-Zip to create a self extracting archive?
I am trying to run an (empty) batch file from a customized TFS Build Definition, but every time the process hits the "Run Script" build activity, I get a "Directory Name is invalid" error.
We are using TFS 2013 Update 4 on Windows Server 2008 R2 Standard, and I am running Visual Studio 2013 from a Win 8.1 Pro on my dev machine.
The batch file in question is at "C:\Builds\SP_Base" on the TFS Server (as shown in the test condition in my customized build template. Here's the template itself (based on GitTemplate.12.xaml, since we are using Git as our source control):
This is the definition for our "Run Script" action:
From the log file, we can see that the test for the directory with the batch file passes without an issue. The same log file then shows the error:
Does anybody know how to resolve this, please?
I've seen other threads discussing the "directory name invalid" issue in other contexts, and the closest match was the one referring to the fact that cmd.exe gets invoked without sufficient privileges.
If we are looking at a symptom of a similar issue here, then what should I do to invoke cmd.exe from a TFS build process without errors?
Currently this is what I have if I look at cmd.exe's properties:
In answer to my question about how to invoke cmd.exe from TFS build process...
I found I can use InvokeProcess activity instead of RunScript in my customized build template. This article helped.
This is my new custom template xaml (including error handling for InvokeProcess):
Also, having added variables ExitCode (Int32) and ErrorMessage (String) as per article, the properties of the InvokeProcess activity now look as follows:
Please note the leading "/c" term in Arguments property for InvokeProcess. Without it, the activity will run and return no error, but the script will not get executed.
Hope this helps somebody with a similar issue.
I created a new free-style software project and under "Configure", I added a "Execute Windows batch command" under the section "Build".
My command in the text-box is as follows:
call \\ukvc-miu29-12\c$\Testing1\testing.bat
My console output when I try to run my build is as follows:
Started by user anonymous
Building in workspace C:\Program Files (x86)\Jenkins\jobs\Run comparison script\workspace
[workspace] $ cmd /c call C:\Windows\TEMP\hudson1649447975658279345.bat
C:\Program Files (x86)\Jenkins\jobs\Run comparison script\workspace>call \\ukvc-miu29-12\c$\Testing1\testing.bat
Access is denied.
C:\Program Files (x86)\Jenkins\jobs\Run comparison script\workspace>exit 1
Build step 'Execute Windows batch command' marked build as failure
Finished: FAILURE
Have spent close to two hours looking for a solution online, but I am unable to find one.
New to Jenkins, so any suggestion/s is/are appreciated, thanks!
I guess Jenkins runs as another user than the one you're logged in with. So that user probably isn't allowed to access that network share (or doesn't have the login credentials cached).
The easiest way of making sure it will work, would probably be to add the same user with the same password that Jenkins runs under to \\ukvc-miu29-12.
(As for the call, I'm not sure you really need it and I have a vague suspicion that you end up failing the build every time if you use call here. The temporary batch Jenkins executes there looks like it relies on the fact that control won't return if the batch file was executed successfully. But that's just a guess on my part.)
Long story short... we have multiple servers which we run perflog monitoring on every night. My job is to convert these logs to .csv format and send them to my e-mail.
This bit it already automated via a .sh script an ex-employee wrote.
What I want automated is to run a batch job after the perfmon logging to look at a specific folder and find the latest .blg file and run the sh script on it (the script is called upload) so that I don't have to log in to each server and do it manually.
e.g.
upload myInitials cd /cygdrive/someLocation/logs/$latestFile$.blg
myInitials and the location can be hard-coded... I just wouldn't know how to find the latest file in the folder and automate it all via a batch file.
Any pointers would be very helpful!
# Jeremy:
Sorry, I probably should have mentioned in my question that the servers are running 2003 and 2008.
I don't think it would be absolutely necessary to register a change notification on the folder - If the log runs from noon till 7 in the morning, the script will run immediately after (you can set a script to run after a perfmon log has finished in log properties) so the log will almost definitely be the latest file in the folder anyway.
Like I said, I already have a .sh file in place to convert to csv and send to my e-mail, I just need to incorporate it into a batch file so that instead of me going to each of the servers and opening up cygwin and typing upload xx /cygdrive/location/logs/xyz.blg, I can have it automated to run straight after the log has finished without me having to RDC into it.
Thanks for the input!
If you have a Shell script and you job is to call the shell script from a windows batch file then this will work.This assumes the cygwin is installed in C:
Contents of start_cyg.bat
#echo off
set PATH=%PATH%:"C:\Cygwin\bin"
rem bash --login -i
bash "/cygdrive/d/cyg.sh"
Contents of cyg.sh
#!/bin/bash
TAIL=`ls -lrt | tail -1`
echo "TAIL:$TAIL"
If you call start_cyg.bat from windows command prompt you can get the output of the cyg.sh in the console
for getting newest file in a directory, ls -1tr | tail -1 should work.
First, I don't know if it would meet your requirements, but the Windows Task Scheduler 2 in Vista+ is very robust and can trigger an event even based on log entries. However, extraction and parsing of that log entry may require some scripting, and might have concurrency issues, even if that log entry did indicate the last used process. Chances are none of this is helpful, but just throwing it out there.
Programatically, it would be simple as you can register a change notification on a folder. When a change occurs, you go find the latest file. Then launch the batch file to launch your shell script, or whatever your desired sequence may be.
I think cygwin may even support change notification events via scripting, though I'm unsure. I believe there are linux extensions for this, but I may be wrong.
If it were me, I'd just write a little C++ app to do whatever I wanted.. but for you maybe any (or more likely none) of the above helps ;o.