Unable to restart salt-minion on Arista

[hokie1999]

Description

Unable to restart salt-minion on Arista load balancer running as

ps -ef | grep salt-minion
root 21393 1 0 2019 ? 3-03:28:39 /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/salt-minion -d <<<< daemon

How would I do that?

Setup

Arista DCS-7150S-52-CL-SSD-F
Hardware version: 02.02
Serial number: JPE15151411
System MAC address: 001c.73b5.09db

Software image version: 4.19.0F-2GB
Architecture: i386
Internal build version: 4.19.0F-2GB-6005119.4190F
Internal build ID: 5969f1e5-2623-40f9-839e-749fdf7c794a

salt --version
salt 2018.3.0-2772-g34b3b90 (Oxygen)

/etc/redhat-release
Fedora release 18 (Spherical Cow)

Steps to Reproduce the behavior

Have tried:

on the arista:

salt-call service.restart salt-minion

systemctl restart salt-minion

service salt-minion restart

salt-call cmd.run 'systemctl restart salt-minion'

There is no reference to salt-minion in /usr/lib/systemd/system or in /etc/rc.d service --status-all and systemctl list-unit-files does not list salt-minion

Expected behavior

Looking for correct command to restart salt-minion. This is related to the need to re-point minion to new salt-master controllers via the /etc/salt/minion file

Screenshots
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Versions Report
Salt Version:
Salt: 2018.3.0-2772-g34b3b90

Dependency Versions:
cffi: Not Installed
cherrypy: Not Installed
dateutil: 2.4.2
docker-py: Not Installed
gitdb: Not Installed
gitpython: Not Installed
ioflo: Not Installed
Jinja2: 2.8
libgit2: Not Installed
libnacl: Not Installed
M2Crypto: 0.21.1
Mako: Not Installed
msgpack-pure: Not Installed
msgpack-python: 0.4.8
mysql-python: Not Installed
pycparser: Not Installed
pycrypto: 2.6.1
pycryptodome: Not Installed
pygit2: Not Installed
Python: 2.7.5 (default, Aug 26 2017, 23:44:09)
python-gnupg: Not Installed
PyYAML: 3.12
PyZMQ: 15.3.0
RAET: Not Installed
smmap: Not Installed
timelib: Not Installed
Tornado: 4.4.2
ZMQ: 4.1.4

System Versions:
dist: fedora 4.19.0
locale: ANSI_X3.4-1968
machine: x86_64
release: 3.4.43.Ar-5956591.4190F
system: Linux
version: Arista Networks EOS 4.19.0

Additional context

[OrangeDog]

Please can you fix the formatting and add an issue title?

However, 2018.3.0 is very old, unsupported, and has many security vulnerabilities.
How you restart it would depend on how it was installed and started in the first place, but your Salt system should really be upgraded at the soonest opportunity.

[hokie1999]

Can someone suggest a way to restart it? what about commands: kill 9 PID and /usr/bin/salt-minion-d Is there an easier way?

[OrangeDog]

If that was how it was started in the first place, then that's the only way to restart it.