I find myself in a situation where I am logged in remotely to a server and have started a long running process, only to realize that I didnt kick off a screen session before, neither did I use nohup
In such a situation, the disown command comes in handy
disown -h %1
After I background the process, I disown it from the current terminal. The disown prevents a SIGHUP to the process if my terminal dies!
from the man page –
disown [-ar] [-h] [jobspec ...]
Without options, each jobspec is removed from the table of active jobs. If the -h option is given, each jobspec is not removed from the table, but is marked so that SIGHUP is not sent to the job if the shell receives a SIGHUP. If no jobspec is present, and neither the -a nor the -r option is supplied, the current job is used. If no jobspec is supplied, the -a option means to remove or mark all jobs; the -r option without a jobspec argument restricts operation to running jobs. The return value is 0 unless a jobspec does not specify a valid job.
Thats it for a sunday morning! To own something can be a lot of responsibility, disown it and rest in peace 
