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

Try:

xterm -e "sudo -b nohup php -S localhost:80 -t /media/malcolm/Workspace/sites &>/dev/null"

When you close xterm, the PHP web server still alive.
Don't put nohup before sudo or else the PHP web server will be killed after closing xterm.