SALT-API(1)

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🎀 SALT-API(1) — ok bestie, it's the salt-api manual, welcome 💖

So this is the manual page for salt-api, from the Salt docs, and honestly? She's serving remote-connection realness. Let's get into it. 🦋

✨ NAME ✨

salt-api — the salt-api Command 💅

She starts up the interfaces you use to remotely connect to the salt master. That's the whole job. Iconic of her, honestly.

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

salt-api

That's it. No args required. She just goes. 👑

💜 DESCRIPTION 💜

Okay so the Salt API system is the girl who manages all the network api connectors for the Salt Master. That's literally her whole thing. She's the connector-wrangler. The network-api babysitter. No cap. 🫶

🧚 OPTIONS 🧚

Every flag, every detail, no skips. Let's go. 💖

  • --version — prints the version of Salt that's running. Simple. Slay.
  • --versions-report — shows you the program's dependencies and its version number, and then dips out (exits). ✨
  • -h, --help — shows the help message and exits. When in doubt, bestie, ask for help. 🌈
  • -c CONFIG_DIR, --config-dir=CONFIG_dir — tells her where the Salt configuration directory lives. That directory holds the config files for the Salt master <italic>and</italic> the minions. On most systems the default location is /etc/salt. 📁
  • -d, --daemon — run salt-api as a daemon. She's independent now. She doesn't need you hovering. 💅
  • --pid-file=PIDFILE — specify where the pidfile goes. Default: /var/run/salt-api.pid. 🍓

💜 Logging Options 💜

These are the logging options, and they override any settings you defined in the configuration files. Yes, override. She said my rules now. 😌

  • -l LOG_LEVEL, --log-level=LOG_LEVEL — the console logging log level. Pick one of: all, garbage, trace, debug, info, warning, error, quiet. Default: warning. 🔥
  • --log-file=LOG_FILE — the log file path. Default: /var/log/salt/api. 📝
  • --log-file-level=LOG_LEVEL_LOGFILE — the logfile logging log level. Same menu as above: one of all, garbage, trace, debug, info, warning, error, quiet. Default: warning. ⭐

👀 SEE ALSO 👀

Go read these too, bestie, they're part of the lore:

🫶 AUTHOR 🫶

Thomas S. Hatch <thatch45@gmail.com> and a whole bunch of others — please see the Authors file for the full squad. 💖

2025

🎀 periodt. that's the whole page. go start some api connectors bestie. 💅

Version 3007.8 💖 generated on September 18, 2025 at 06:58:52 UTC — so yeah, this manual was born on a Thursday, and she's been serving ever since. ✨🦋 bye bestie!! 🌸

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