Joachim Wiberg c584795202 doc: fix back-references and stale claims left by the conversion
Reference sections kept pointing at the line-based format they no longer
document.  `sysv` and `task` sent the reader to Services for "<COND>",
the cgroups chapter opened by listing three legacy directives and then
explained further down that only two of them exist here, and the logging
chapter still gave "log:prio:facility.level,tag:ident" as the full
syntax.

Some claims were wrong independent of the format:

  - a sysv is a supervised daemon, grouped with service in
    SVC_TYPE_DAEMON, not a variation on task
  - restart-max has no upper bound of 255, or any other
  - the built-in rescue fallback runs in 12345789, not 12345
  - conditional loading quotes system/10-hotplug.conf, not
    system/hotplug.conf
  - the key spells conflicts, not conflict
  - the built-in getty no longer wants TERM last, it is a key

`if` takes either a service name or, in angle brackets, a condition,
decided in svc_ifthen().  Only the examples showed this, so it is now
said.

Terminology follows the split index.md already draws: a block is the new
format, a stanza the line-based one.

src/rescue.conf was still line-based, missed because it sits in src/
rather than system/ or contrib/.

Signed-off-by: Joachim Wiberg <troglobit@gmail.com>
2026-07-30 15:23:35 +02:00
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License Badge Release Badge GitHub Status Coverity Status Finit: Fast Init

Finit is a fast, simple alternative to SysV init and systemd, designed for small and embedded Linux systems. It can also run on desktop and server systems, like finix.

Reverse engineered from the EeePC fastinit
"gaps filled with frog DNA …"
— Claudio Matsuoka

For detailed information, explore our extensive documentation
📚 http://finit-project.github.io

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For working examples, see the 🚀 contrib/ section or these tutorials:

Note

Finit can run on various Linux distributions, but the bundled install scripts are examples only. They have been tested on amd64 (x86_64) systems with standard configurations.

For embedded systems, see these Buildroot-based examples: myLinux, Infix, or br2-finit-demo.

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