How to prevent a background process from being stopped after closing SSH client in Linux

Question

I\'m working on a Linux machine through SSH (Putty). I need to leave a process running during the night, so I thought I could do that by starting the process in background (

Answer 1

Personally, I like the 'batch' command.

$ batch
> mycommand -x arg1 -y arg2 -z arg3
> ^D

This stuffs it in to the background, and then mails the results to you. It's a part of cron.