SALT-MINION(1) Salt SALT-MINION(1)NAMEsalt-minion - salt-minion Documentation
The Salt minion daemon, receives commands from a remote Salt master.
SYNOPSISsalt-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 /usr/local/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-min‐
ion.pid
Logging Options
Logging options which override any settings defined on the configura‐
tion 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 ALSOsalt(1)salt(7)salt-master(1)AUTHOR
Thomas S. Hatch <thatch45@gmail.com> and many others, please see the
Authors file
COPYRIGHT
2015 SaltStack, Inc.
2015.8.1 September 30, 2015 SALT-MINION(1)