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Visual Studio Team Services and TFS agent for Mac OSX and Linux
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Enable non interactive configuration and run #309

Closed giggio closed 8 years ago

giggio commented 8 years ago

Right now the only way to configure and to run the agent is interactively, with a human interacting with the console. We need to be able to configure the agent by passing command line arguments. We also need to be able to run the agent by passing command line arguments. Or it should simply remember the user name and password from the initial configuration. The use of environment variables should also be allowed, so, for instance, if a variable, say, AGENT_USER is set, you should use it (of course you would name such variables), and configuration and run should work without human interaction.

bryanmacfarlane commented 8 years ago

You can run as a service on OSX (plist) and Linux (init.d, systemd) We offer a convenience to create the plist on OSX: https://github.com/Microsoft/vso-agent/blob/master/docs/service.md

The host takes -u and -p command line arguments.

All that said, you should be using the new agent that is replacing this one. This one is deprecated: https://github.com/Microsoft/vsts-agent

giggio commented 8 years ago

Opened https://github.com/Microsoft/vsts-agent/issues/221, same problem exists with the new agent. At lease it already runs without user interaction.