[Gllug] Killing the client but leaving the process running

[Andrew Halliwell]

And verily, didst Tom Schutzer-Weissmann announce to the hordes:
> 
> I used putty to get a terminal on a linux server on my windows machine.
> Now I want to go home and really I ought to log out of windows, but this
> will kill my session and an important backup running in the background.
> 
> Out of curiosity, is there any way to get round this? 

Use screen
Multiple terminals in one session that you can detatch from the controlling
terminal, and then re-attach to another controlling termninal leaving the
jobs running...
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