SaltStack or Salt is a Python-based open source configuration management and remote execution engine. This SlackBuild packages both the master and the minion. Note: at this time, the pkg and service modules are not available (unimplemented) in minions running Slackware. Optional dependencies include: python-ldap GitPython Mako libvirt pyOpenSSL CherryPy pymongo python-keyring MySQL-python redis-py python-gnupg You must configure your master and your minions correctly before using salt. For configuration details, please see: https://docs.saltstack.com/en/latest/ref/configuration/index.html To start the salt daemons automatically on your systems, you can add the following lines to /etc/rc.d/rc.local, and then on each system enable only the daemons you actually want, by making the rc scripts executable. if [ -x /etc/rc.d/rc.salt-master ]; then /etc/rc.d/rc.salt-master start fi if [ -x /etc/rc.d/rc.salt-minion ]; then /etc/rc.d/rc.salt-minion start fi if [ -x /etc/rc.d/rc.salt-syndic ]; then /etc/rc.d/rc.salt-syndic start fi On a master, you should enable the salt-master daemon, and probably also the salt-minion daemon: chmod +x /etc/rc.d/rc.salt-{master,minion} On a minion, you should enable only the salt-minion daemon: chmod +x /etc/rc.d/rc.salt-minion You probably won't want to enable the salt-syndic daemon unless you have configured a complex topology.