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# `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

`-h````,` `--help```

  Print a usage message briefly summarizing these command-line options.

`-d````,` `--daemon```

  Run the Salt minion as a daemon

`-c` `CONFIG``,` `--config``=CONFIG`

  The minion configuration file to use, the default is /etc/salt/minion

`-u` `USER``,` `--user``=USER`

  Specify user to run minion

`--pid-file` `PIDFILE`

  Specify the location of the pidfile

`-l` `LOG_LEVEL``,` `--log-level``=LOG_LEVEL`

  Console log level. One of `info`, `none`, `garbage`, `trace`, `warning`, `error`, `debug`. For the logfile settings see the config file. Default: `warning`.

## See also

salt(1) salt(7) salt-master(1)

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