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SALT-MINION(1) Salt SALT-MINION(1)

NAME

salt-minion - salt-minion Documentation

The Salt minion daemon, receives commands from a remote Salt master.

SYNOPSIS

salt-minion [ options ]


DESCRIPTION

The Salt minion receives commands from the central Salt master and replies with the results of said commands.

OPTIONS

Print the version of Salt that is running.

Show program's dependencies and version number, and then exit

Show the help message and exit

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.

Specify user to run salt-minion

Run salt-minion as a daemon

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.

Console logging log level. One of all, garbage, trace, debug, info, warning, error, quiet. Default: warning.

Log file path. Default: /var/log/salt/minion.

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

April 16, 2022 3004.1