Assign Jails to specific JID

[Prasanth]

As I was searching for a way to run a cron job within a specific jail I found this thread
cron-job-curl-inside-a-jail

Apparently in an older version of FreeNAS there was a UI option to assign each jail to a specific JID. (https://bugs.freenas.org/issues/1580) I wanted to request that feature back again as it would help run some cron jobs within the jail that can be controlled from the GUI.

Right now I'm having to use

Code:

/usr/sbin/jexec `jls | awk '/plex/ {print $1}'` command

in the cron command to ensure it will continue to work even if JID changes.

thanks

 

[Gonzalo]

You can use: jexec -n <name of the Jail> <command>

 

[Prasanth]

thanks Gonzalo...for some reason when I tried that yday it didn't work. I went to check again and it works fine now...weird