salt-minion(1) - Linux man page

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

-h, --help

Print a usage message briefly summarizing these command-line options.
-d, --daemon
Run the Salt minion as a daemon
-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 minion
--pid-file PIDFILE
Specify the location of the pidfile
-l LOG_LEVEL, --log-level=LOG_LEVEL
Console log level. One of info, none, garbage, trace, warning, error, debug. For the logfile settings see the config file. Default: warning.
--version
Show program's version number and exit
--versions-report
Show program's dependencies version number and exit

See Also

salt(1) salt(7) salt-master(1)

Author

Thomas S. Hatch <thatch45@gmail.com> and many others, please see the Authors file

Copyright

2013, Thomas S. Hatch

Referenced By

salt-call(1), salt-cloud(1), salt-cp(1), salt-key(1), salt-run(1), salt-syndic(1)