OpenVZ has vzctl exec, what is the equivelent for lxc

Question

I'm switching from OpenVZ to lxc. The one thing that is really bugging me is that I can't find a lxc alternative to vzctl exec. Before on OpenVZ I could do vzctl exec 1033 restart nginx. Now, all I can figure out to do is either run sshd in every container or use lxc-console, and I don't like either option (the first is too much management overhead, the second is too much of a hassle).

Answer 1

Have you tried lxc-attach instead? According the documentation,

lxc-attach - start a process inside a running container.

Example to list all folders inside home of the container

lxc-attach -n myContainer -- ls -lh /home

If no process is defined, it creates a new shell inside the container.