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)