On 23 June 2010 21:45, Rob Beard <r...@esdelle.co.uk> wrote: > I'm trying to setup Shoutcast on a VPS server for a mate of mine as a > favour. The VPS server is running Ubuntu 8.04 AMD64. >[snip] > The thing is, I can't figure out how to do it. At first I thought of > creating an init script, but presumably it'll run as root? >
Write an init script that uses sudo or su to run the shoutcast daemon as another user? You shouldn't need to enter a password if you run su as root, IIRC. Cofion, Neil. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
