SALT-MINION(1)

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✨ SALT-MINION(1) ✨

okay bestie, welcome to the salt-minion manual page 💖 this is part of the Salt docs, and fr fr it's the whole rundown on the little daemon that lives on your box and takes orders from a remote Salt master 🎀

🌸 NAME 🌸

salt-minion — salt-minion Documentation

The Salt minion daemon, receives commands from a remote Salt master. that's it, that's the vibe 🫶

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

salt-minion [ options ]

🌈 DESCRIPTION 🌈

The Salt minion receives commands from the central Salt master and replies with the results of said commands. literally the whole job description, and she eats every single time 👑

💅 OPTIONS 💅

  • --version — Print the version of Salt that is running. cute lil flex, show me the numbers ✨
  • --versions-report — Show program's dependencies and version number, and then exit. it's giving "receipts" 🧾
  • -h, --help — Show the help message and exit. bestie when you're lost, just ask 🥺
  • -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. background mode, main character energy but make it invisible 💀
  • --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. so like, these ones > whatever your config said, no cap.

  • -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)

go read the whole family, iykyk 💜

🫶 AUTHOR 🫶

Thomas S. Hatch <thatch45@gmail.com> and many others, please see the Authors file. iconic behavior from the whole squad honestly 🌟

2025

and that's a wrap, bestie 💖 this was Salt version 3007.8, generated on September 18, 2025 at 06:58:52 UTC — slay, periodt, go run your minion ✨👑

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