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NAME

6       salt-minion - salt-minion Documentation
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8       The Salt minion daemon, receives commands from a remote Salt master.
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SYNOPSIS

11          salt-minion [ options ]
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DESCRIPTION

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

18       --version
19              Print the version of Salt that is running.
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21       --versions-report
22              Show program's dependencies and version number, and then exit
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24       -h, --help
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27       -c CONFIG_DIR, --config-dir=CONFIG_dir
28              The location of the Salt configuration directory. This directory
29              contains  the  configuration  files for Salt master and minions.
30              The default location on most systems is /etc/salt.
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32       -u USER, --user=USER
33              Specify user to run salt-minion
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35       -d, --daemon
36              Run salt-minion as a daemon
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38       --pid-file PIDFILE
39              Specify the location of the pidfile. Default: /var/run/salt-min‐
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42   Logging Options
43       Logging  options  which override any settings defined on the configura‐
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46       -l LOG_LEVEL, --log-level=LOG_LEVEL
47              Console logging log level. One of all,  garbage,  trace,  debug,
48              info, warning, error, quiet. Default: warning.
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50       --log-file=LOG_FILE
51              Log file path. Default: /var/log/salt/minion.
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53       --log-file-level=LOG_LEVEL_LOGFILE
54              Logfile  logging  log  level. One of all, garbage, trace, debug,
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SEE ALSO

58       salt(1) salt(7) salt-master(1)
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AUTHOR

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