Getting Ventrilo server to run on startup?

[Mikey7047]

I have Ventrilo installed and running correctly, but only when I activate it from the command line. It is installed in /usr/bin/ventrilo
and the executable is /usr/bin/ventrilo/ventrilo_srv

I made a script using this guide to get the vent server to run on bootup:
http://ubuntu.wordpress.com/2005/09/07/adding-a-startup-script-to-be-run-at-bootup/

which is /etc/init.d/vent.sh

The contents of vent.sh look like this right now:

su mvarrieur -c "/usr/bin/ventrilo/ventrilo_srv -f/usr/bin/ventrilo/3784 -d"

I have also tried a couple other ways of getting it to run on startup such as:

/usr/bin/ventrilo/ventrilo_srv -d
and:
/usr/bin/ventrilo/ventrilo_srv -d &

None of these methods have ran the script on startup. Any advice or am I just completely missing something here?

[ajgreeny]

Assuming you usually start it as user and not root, I think you can simply add the link you use in terminal to the startup programs, which I think are in Administration>Start up Programs in your gnome menu. I use KDE so can't remember the detail, but I'm sure you'll find it easily.

Should you be using KDE put the link into your ~/.kde/Autostart folder.

[Mikey7047]

I believe it has to be started as root, though I will try running it as user and see what happens.

[Mikey7047]

I chmod'd it 777 and ran it as user, so it's working now, thanks =)

EDIT: Working in terminal, still not working on startup

[TSMJ]

So the script is in /etc/init.d?

cd there and:
update-rc.d <scriptname> defaults

You can use
update-rc.d -f <scriptname> remove
to remove it from startup.

Does that help at all?! Did you do that before?