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

-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)