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NAME
       salt-minion - salt-minion Documentation

       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 /usr/local/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)

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

COPYRIGHT
       2015 SaltStack, Inc.

2015.8.1                      September 30, 2015                SALT-MINION(1)