Getting sudo and nohup to work together

Question

Linux newbie here.

I have a perl script which takes two command line inputs. I tried to run it in the background but this is what I got:

[~user]$ nohup s         


        

Answer 1

I open an editor and typed these lines:

#!/bin/bash
sudo echo Starting ...
sudo -b MyProcess

(Where MyProcess is anything I want to run as superuser.)

Then I save the file where I want it as MyShellScript.sh .

Then change the file permissions to allow execution. Then run it in a terminal. the "-b" option tells sudo to run the process separately in the background, so the process keeps running after the terminal session dies.

Worked for me in linux-mint.