Again, look at this page
http://www.starnetok.net/~jallen/tutorials/su-sudo.html

The /etc/sudoers file has to be set up correctly.

# sudoers file.
#
# This file MUST be edited with the 'visudo' command as root.
#
# See the sudoers man page for the details on how to write a sudoers file.
#

# Host alias specification

# User alias specification

# Cmnd alias specification

# Defaults specification

# User privilege specification
root ALL=(ALL) ALL
alex ALL=(ALL) ALL
# Uncomment to allow people in group wheel to run all commands
# %wheel ALL=(ALL) ALL

# Same thing without a password
# %wheel ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: ALL

# Samples
# %users ALL=/sbin/mount /cdrom,/sbin/umount /cdrom
%users localhost=/sbin/reboot,/sbin/poweroff,/sbin/installpkg,/sbin/removepkg

Wait if i have to sudo every 15 minutes is there a cron tab or something i can setup to sudo for the user alex only? if so where would the file be that i need to stick it in and what text would i need to insert.

Well if you realy don't want to type password add
%users localhost=(ALL) ALL NOPASSWD: ALL

[edit]
warning : do not run ssh server

Im not running it.. Do i have to logout for the thing to take affect is that why it wont work?

How do you test it ?

What?

nvm unless someone can create a script or something that allows me to reboot shutdown install packages and run swaret without being root and without putting in an extra command... I want to just have it where i just type swaret --upgrade as a regular user but i have a file lets say /etc/perms that controls which users can do what...

do sudo -l
enter YOUR password not ROOT and see ...

User alex may run the following commands on this host:
(ALL) NOPASSWD: ALL

and did you try
sudo /usr/sbin/swaret --update
?

swaret 1.6.2-1

You need 'pkgtools' in order to use swaret!
'pkgtools' can be found in the Slackware Packages Directory: slackware/a!

You mean i have to put the directory to it? screw that then ill just use su.. its alot less i just wanted something where i never have to type su or sudo command i just wanted to type command and it worked...

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Well in the way you go, you may end with a computer less secure than one running windows 98 lol
If I were you I would remove the %users localhost=(ALL) ALL NOPASSWD: ALL line in /etc/sudoers