salt-master(1)

salt-master1

Salt-master documentation the salt master daemon, used to control the salt minions

Usage

salt-master [ options ]

Overview

The master daemon controls the Salt minions

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 /etc/salt.

-u USER, --user=USER

Specify user to run salt-master

-d, --daemon

Run salt-master as a daemon

--pid-file PIDFILE

Specify the location of the pidfile. Default: /var/run/salt-master.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/master.

--log-file-level=LOG_LEVEL_LOGFILE

Logfile logging log level. One of all, garbage, trace, debug, info, warning, error, quiet. Default: warning.

Releases

3 releases since Debian 8 (Jessie); the text changed 2 times.

  1. 8
  2. 9
  3. 10

Author

Thomas S. Hatch <[email protected]> and many others, please see the Authors file

From salt-master 2018.3.4+dfsg1-6+deb10u3 in Debian 10 (Buster). Parsed by carta from the page's man source.