Where does a TeamCity build agent get its path environment from?

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erikkallen picture erikkallen · Jan 11, 2012 · Viewed 24.7k times · Source

I'm trying to set up TeamCity to build my project, but my psake buildscript fails, with the reason being narrowed down to its inability to find the git executable, which is supposed to be on the path. When I start a PowerShell and execute the thing by myself, everything works fine.

The content of the Path environment variable (as shown in the System variables list in the windows Environment Variables dialog, as well as the registry at HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Control\Session Manager\Environment\Path) is

%SystemRoot%\system32;%SystemRoot%;%SystemRoot%\System32\Wbem;c:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft SQL Server\90\Tools\binn\;c:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft SQL Server\100\Tools\Binn\;c:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\100\Tools\Binn\;c:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\100\DTS\Binn\;c:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft SQL Server\100\Tools\Binn\VSShell\Common7\IDE\;c:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft SQL Server\100\DTS\Binn\;C:\Program Files (x86)\Git\cmd

yet TeamCity says its env.Path is just

C:\Windows\system32;C:\Windows;C:\Windows\System32\Wbem;c:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft SQL Server\90\Tools\binn\;C:\Windows\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0

I have restarted the computer (multiple times) which does not help whatsoever.

Why is the TeamCity build agent's PATH variable different from the system default, and how can I fix it?

Answer

Sean picture Sean · Feb 8, 2014

I ran into this same issue and only needed to restart the Team City Build Agent Service to pick up changes to the PATH variable.

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