[sclug] Leave a process running after logging out?

[Simon Heywood]

On Tue, 15 Feb 2005 at 18:39:20 +0000, Sapan Ganguly wrote:
> I am forever starting commands in a bash shell that take longer than I
> expect, is there a way to background or pause a task that is already
> in the foreground AND log off and go home (but still see the results
> when I log on again in the morning)?  Sometimes I forget to use things
> like 'screen', 'nohup' etc.  If I use Ctrl-Z the process is still
> killed when I log off.

I'm fairly sure that if you forget to run screen, you're stuffed.
Whenever I login to some remote machine I run 'screen -RD' just in case.

S.