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`salt-minion`¶

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¶

--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)

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