finit(8)

NAME
finit, init, telinit - Fast init for Linux systems

SYNOPSIS
finit [OPTIONS] [q | Q | 0-9]

DESCRIPTION
Finit is a simple alternative to SysV init and systemd, reverse engineered from the EeePC fastinit ten years ago by Claudio Matsuoka - "gaps filled with frog DNA ..." . Finit supports runlevels, process monitoring, and starting services on demand using the built-in inetd, or by triggering a condition. E.g., "don't start this service until basic networking is available", or "wait until syslogd has started".

OPTIONS

-h, --help
    This help text

-V, --version
    Show Finit version

COMMANDS

0   Power-off the system, same as initctl poweroff

6   Reboot the system, same as initctl reboot

2, 3, 4, 5
    Change runlevel. Starts services in new runlevel, stops any services in prev. runlevel that are not allowed in new.

q, Q
    Reload *.conf in /etc/finit.d/, same as initctl reload or sending SIGHUP to PID 1

1, s, S
    Enter system rescue mode, runlevel 1

SEE ALSO
/usr/share/doc/finit/doc

AUTHOR
finit is written by Claudio Matsuoka (cmatsuoka@gmail.com) and Joachim Nilsson (troglobit@gmail.com). This manual page was written by Yangfl (mmyangfl@gmail.com) for the Debian Project (and may be used by others).