Keep a program running after closing a console, after the program has started

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Published on 2010-03-26T12:37:39Z Indexed on 2010/03/26 12:43 UTC
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Hi all,

I've a program running in a unix console on a remote unix computer. I (stupidly) didn't run it using nohup &, and now I need to close the local console. Is there any way to have it keep running remotely after closing the local console?

Thanks a lot!

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