Best posts made by Tom Gidden

FYI, if you want to start a process to run on startup and continue running, then you can add it to /etc/rc.local, but that'll keep rc.local running until your process finishes (never, possibly)

Instead, you can use start-stop-daemon:

start-stop-daemon -S -b -x /root/project/project-script

You'll need to make sure your script is executable, too. The -b puts the process in the background so it won't hold up execution of the rest of rc.local.

Duh. Solved the problem... I had a script in /etc/init.d that wasn't backgrounding properly, so the system wasn't actually booted all the way; as a result, the button wasn't working. Fixed that script, and the button now works as expected.

Anyway, I confirmed the script in /etc/rc.button/reset does work, and you can replace the reboot line with whatever you want. I hope that helps someone.