su command question

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Robert Dailey wrote:
> [... other discussion removed ...]
> That's excellent, I didn't know that rc.local is run by root. That 
> solves starting the server at boot time, however what if I want to 
> issue the Ventrilo server start/stop commands without being prompted? 
> Is this when I use "sudo su" together?
> 

Sudo can let you do this. First you would need to add a line to 
/etc/sudoers (do not edit directly) giving you the privilege to run 
ventrilo_srv. Read "man sudoers" and "man visudo"