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salt-minion - salt-minion Documentation

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

salt-minion [ options ]


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

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 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.

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

November 18, 2021 2018.3.4