NAME¶
salt-minion - salt-minion Documentation
The Salt minion daemon, receives commands from a remote Salt master.
SYNOPSIS¶
DESCRIPTION¶
The Salt minion receives commands from the central Salt master and replies with
the results of said commands.
OPTIONS¶
- --version
- Print the version of Salt that is running.
- --versions-report
- Show program's dependencies and version number, and then exit
- -h, --help
- Show the help message and exit
- -c CONFIG_DIR, --config-dir=CONFIG_dir
- The location of the Salt configuration directory. This directory contains
the configuration files for Salt master and minions. The default location
on most systems is /etc/salt.
- -u USER, --user=USER
- Specify user to run salt-minion
- -d, --daemon
- Run salt-minion as a daemon
- --pid-file PIDFILE
- Specify the location of the pidfile. Default:
/var/run/salt-minion.pid
Logging Options¶
Logging options which override any settings defined on the configuration files.
- -l LOG_LEVEL, --log-level=LOG_LEVEL
- Console logging log level. One of all, garbage,
trace, debug, info, warning, error,
quiet. Default: warning.
- --log-file=LOG_FILE
- Log file path. Default: /var/log/salt/minion.
- --log-file-level=LOG_LEVEL_LOGFILE
- Logfile logging log level. One of all, garbage,
trace, debug, info, warning, error,
quiet. Default: warning.
SEE ALSO¶
salt(1) salt(7) salt-master(1)
AUTHOR¶
Thomas S. Hatch <thatch45@gmail.com> and many others, please see the
Authors file
