use cron to run jail commands

[nikkon]

Hi all,

It may sound stupid, but I could not find this in the docs. I intend to periodically run commands into each and every jail.
Cron seems to be the easy way.
Can you please advise? a simple example will help me understand
Thanks

 

[Samuel Tai]

Cron already runs in each jail. Just crontab -e as root in each jail. See the crontab(5) man page for FreeBSD for examples.

 

[nikkon]

I was willing to define cron jobs in freenas to run tasks inside the jail. If I destroy/recreate the jails, I don't wanna lose the jobs

 

[Patrick M. Hausen]

You can run commands inside the jail from the NAS by using
/usr/local/bin/iocage exec <jailname> <command> ...

Please check if the path for iocage is correct. I am not at my NAS at the moment. which iocage should do it.

 

[nikkon]

thanks