Daemonizing Salt Minion on MacOS

[scottalanmiller]

MacOS always requires a few more steps than other platforms.

Once you have a salt-minion installed, you can set it to be treated as a daemon with this command:

sudo curl -L https://raw.githubusercontent.com/saltstack/salt/develop/pkg/darwin/com.saltstack.salt.minion.plist -o /Library/LaunchDaemons/com.saltstack.salt.minion.plist

Then you can start (load) or stop (unload) with the launchctl utility.

sudo launchctl load -w /Library/LaunchDaemons/com.saltstack.salt.minion.plist 
sudo launchctl unload /Library/LaunchDaemons/com.saltstack.salt.minion.plist