easy way to create a daemon

[Charles Jones]

Just thought that I would add, that if the process is already running 
(you forgot to run it with nohup), you can still protect it via:

1. Ctrl-Z (suspends the process)
2. "bg"  (runs the process in background)
3. "disown %1" (detaches the process from the pty...same effect as nohup)
4. Logout and know your process is still running.

If you have multiple backgrounded processes, run the "jobs" command and 
use the appropriate job number with the disown command.