Pool Upgrade Question - Is this a problem

[dan]

@NASbox

How would I run a job inside a jail from a cron job outside the jail?

You could do that, but it’d be needlessly awkward–much better would be to do what Patrick suggested and just set up the cron job inside the jail. But if you really wanted to do this, the command to run would be iocage exec <jailname> /path/to/command --flag argument.

[NASbox]

@pmh

You don’t. You login to the jail as root and create a cron job inside the jail like so:

crontab -u <user> -e

Thanks Patrick… got it working.

@dan

You could do that, but it’d be needlessly awkward–much better would be to do what Patrick suggested and just set up the cron job inside the jail. But if you really wanted to do this, the command to run would be iocage exec <jailname> /path/to/command --flag argument.

Thanks for this… I’ve made a note of this as I may want to do something like this to run a command on demand from the command line.

I’m starting to get a bit more comfortable with Jails, now to try the Nextcloud install.