How to automatically move artifacts from Team City to virtual directories

If the teamcity start script is a LSB-compliant init script (that is, if it provides start, stop and other arguments), you can just copy the script to /etc/init.d folder and run (as root):

# chkconfig --add <script_name>
# chkconfig <script_name> on

A symbolic link for the file should be OK too. So try (as root):

# ln -s /opt/TeamCity/bin/teamcity-server.sh /etc/init.d/teamcity-server
# chkconfig --add teamcity-server
# chkconfig teamcity-server on

If it doesn't start on initialization, but starting manually without problems, you should check:

1. permissions (maybe the program can not be run as root. Try to log on as root and run it), and;
2. your PATH (maybe the script need something but it does not know where it is).

To print the content of your PATH just run:

echo $PATH

To check if the reason to the script not start is the PATH, try:

$ cd /
$ PATH= /opt/TeamCity/bin/teamcity-server.sh

This command will temporary clear your PATH and run the command. If the command need some specific info on the PATH it will fail (be careful to run exactly as stated above, THERE IS a space between PATH= and the remaining of the command).

The PsExec command/arguments you have given in your example are malformed, instead try:

C:\Tools\PsExec.exe \\server2 -u "domain\admin" -p "abcd" "C:\Install.bat" -i -d -f -w

Also, putting it all together with an example adapted from something I've written earlier. PSExecRetry.log will contain the output of PsExec (including errors), although won't capture the StdOut/StdErr output of the subsequent command as-is.

PSExecRetry.ps1 is the PowerShell script with some basic retry logic:

#PSExecRetry.ps1

$LogFile = "PSExecRetry.log"
$defaultSleepSecs = 3
$RetryCount = 3
$StopLoop = $false
$retries = 1

try {
    # open the log file
    Start-Transcript -path $LogFile -append
    do {
        try
        {
            $Command = "C:\PSInstall.bat"
            Write-Host "Executing command" $Command ".`r"
            Invoke-Expression -Command $Command

            if ($LastExitcode -ne 0)
            {
                throw "Retry {0} of {1}" -f $retries, $RetryCount
            }
            else
            {
                $StopLoop = $true
            }
        }
        catch
        {
            if ($retries -gt $RetryCount)
            {
                Write-Host("Exception.Message={0}; InvocationInfo.ScriptName={1}" -f $_.Exception.Message, $_.InvocationInfo.ScriptName)
                Write-Host("Giving up after {0} retries.`r" -f $RetryCount)
                $StopLoop = $true
            }
            else
            {
                Write-Host("Exception.Message={0}; InvocationInfo.ScriptName={1}" -f $_.Exception.Message, $_.InvocationInfo.ScriptName)
                Write-Host("Exception, retrying in {0} seconds.`r" -f $defaultSleepSecs)
                Start-Sleep -Seconds $defaultSleepSecs
                $retries = $retries + 1        
            }
        }
    } While ($StopLoop -eq $false)
}
catch
{
    Write-Host("Exception.Message={0}; InvocationInfo.ScriptName={1}" -f $_.Exception.Message, $_.InvocationInfo.ScriptName)
}
finally
{
    Stop-Transcript
}

PSInstall.cmd is modified as follows:

#PSInstall.cmd

C:\PsExec.exe \\server2 -u "domain\admin" -p "abcd" "C:\Install.bat" -i -d -f -w

Install.bat stub:

#Install.bat

echo Hello world!