Bamboo Job Exit with Error cmd' is not recognized as an internal or external command
Asked by Charith Wickramarachchi:

Hi ,

I have setup a remote bamboo agent to run in a windows environment where The server runs in a Linux environment.

Here i have setup a plan to build a multi module maven project. and that plan runs using that remote agent.

I have split the build process by having few tasks which will execute one after another to build speprate modules.

But after successfully executing the 1st Task the build get failed with a Error message

```
'cmd' is not recognized as an internal or external command,operable program or batch file.
```

```
Failing task since return code was 1 while expected 0
```

any tips to find a solution for this issue is highly appriciated.

cheers,

Charith


Answers:
author: Thumper Prey
body: I solved this issue on my Windows build agent. This has to do with the environment variables set for the user that runs bamboo. Log in as that user and verify that %SystemRoot%\\system32 is included in your Path variable for that user.

<http://superuser.com/questions/133263/windows-7-user-specific-path>

comments: author: Stefan Wendelmann
body: System Path has %SystemRoot%\\system32 bit still facing that error


author: Przemek Bruski
body: On your remote agent, make sure that directory with cmd.exe is in the PATH variable by setting it for the user used to run the agent.

comments: author: Charith Wickramarachchi
body: Hi,

Thanks for the answer. I accually tried adding this to PATH using ENV variable settings but no luck. Then i re do it in the place where we can define ENV variables in Bamboo dashbord. Then it worked when the agent is running as a normal process. But when i install it as a service i faced the issue again.

cheers,

Charith


author: Rahul Goutham Banka
body: I faced the same issue but resolved by following this [Doc](https://confluence.atlassian.com/bamboo/running-bamboo-as-a-windows-service-as-the-local-user-416580754.html).

PS: I know this is a very old post, this might help someone.


author: MOHAN TUNUGUNTLA
body: Hi Przemek, I am aslo facing the similar issue. its running fine in Bamboo console and but failind with the below error when bamboo is run as service. I have to run it bamboo as service.

Could you please help in sorting this out?

|----------------------|-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
| INFO\] BUILD SUCCESS |
| 27-Jan-2012 05:00:12 | \[INFO\] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ |
| 27-Jan-2012 05:00:12 | \[INFO\] Total time: 2:26.750s                                                    |
| 27-Jan-2012 05:00:12 | \[INFO\] Finished at: Fri Jan 27 05:00:12 GMT-12:00 2012                          |
| 27-Jan-2012 05:00:12 | \[INFO\] Final Memory: 51M/369M                                                   |
| 27-Jan-2012 05:00:12 | \[INFO\] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ |
| 27-Jan-2012 05:00:13 | **'cmd' is not recognized as an internal or external command,**                   |
| 27-Jan-2012 05:00:13 | operable program or batch file.                                                   |
| 27-Jan-2012 05:00:13 | Failing task since return code was 1 while expected 0                             |
| 27-Jan-2012 05:00:13 | Parsing test results...                                                           |