Start a job that does not end when my terminal session does?

Question

How can I start a job on a *nix system that will not exit when my session exits?

Answer 1

nohup your_process &

Answer 2

Use the command nohup, and then add an ampersand (&) at the end to put the job in the background.

$ nohup ./fetch_command > fetch_log_file &

Then you can exit the shell and the job will continue running.