The Salt master daemon, used to control the Salt minions
salt-master [ options ]
The master daemon controls the Salt minions
Print a usage message briefly summarizing these command-line options.
Show program's version number and exit
Show program's dependencies version number and exit
Run the Salt master as a daemon
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.
Specify user to run minion
Specify the location of the pidfile.
Console log level. One of info, none, garbage, trace, warning, error, debug. For the logfile settings see the config file. Default: warning.
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