finit: finit errors on boot & trouble with logging

I am trying finit 3.1 and I am having two issues. Hopefully I am just doing something wrong. 😃

First, when finit starts up, the following messages appear in the log:

Jan  1 00:10:13 igep00x0 syslog.info syslogd started: BusyBox v1.19.4
Jan  1 00:10:15 igep00x0 daemon.err finit[1]: cond_set_path():Unable to read configuration generation (/var/run/finit/cond/net/lo/exist)
Jan  1 00:10:15 igep00x0 daemon.err finit[1]: cond_set_path():Unable to read configuration generation (/var/run/finit/cond/net/lo/up)
Jan  1 00:10:15 igep00x0 daemon.err finit[1]: cond_set_path():Unable to read configuration generation (/var/run/finit/cond/net/lo/running)
Jan  1 00:10:15 igep00x0 daemon.err finit[1]: cond_set_path():Unable to read configuration generation (/var/run/finit/cond/net/eth0/exist)
Jan  1 00:10:15 igep00x0 daemon.err finit[1]: cond_set_path():Unable to read configuration generation (/var/run/finit/cond/net/eth0/up)
Jan  1 00:10:15 igep00x0 daemon.err finit[1]: cond_set_path():Unable to read configuration generation (/var/run/finit/cond/net/eth0/running)
Jan  1 00:10:15 igep00x0 daemon.err finit[1]: cond_set_path():Unable to read configuration generation (/var/run/finit/cond/net/route/default)
Jan  1 00:10:16 igep00x0 daemon.err finit[1]: cond_set_path():Unable to read configuration generation (/var/run/finit/cond/net/eth0/exist)
Jan  1 00:10:16 igep00x0 daemon.err finit[1]: cond_set_path():Unable to read configuration generation (/var/run/finit/cond/net/eth0/up)
Jan  1 00:10:16 igep00x0 daemon.err finit[1]: cond_set_path():Unable to read configuration generation (/var/run/finit/cond/net/eth0/running)
Jan  1 00:10:16 igep00x0 auth.info login[412]: root login on 'ttyO2'

I realize that BusyBox is rather old, but that is what I am stuck with for this project.

The error message appears to be coming from the file reconf missing from the directory /var/run/finit/cond/ (line 75 in cond-w.c).

Next, I wanted to test out the logging features.

I tried putting the following in finit.conf:

task [2345] log:/var/log/test1 uname -a
task [2345] log uname -a
task [2345] log:/var/log/test2 <svc/sbin/syslogd> uname -a

The files appear in /var/log/ except they are empty. Also, no output from the task appear in the syslog messages. I was expecting to see the following:

The same is true if I change task to service in the above snippet.

Could you suggest some steps to help troubleshoot these issues?

I am using the bootmisc and netlink plugins on this test setup. The hardware is an IGEP0020 board running a custom Yocto with Linux kernel 2.6.37. Thanks very much!