Hello,
I wrote a script, which would ideally take about 480 hours to runs (It has to do a same thing 60 times.) But the problem is I have to use a VPN Client to get to the network before connecting to the machine. The Client automatically closes after 10 hours, closing my console and thus my script. So my question is:
Is there some way by which I can run the script as a batch process in the background so that closing of the console doesn't affect its running?
My script invokes a few programs (matlab compiled programs and the FE package ABAQUS) which produce a few warning messages.
Thanks
-sakya

You can use cron
Just add this script in /etc/crontab and reread config this command
# crontab /etc/crontab
to launch script under your account

If it must be runing under root account - don't rereading config (OS will be doing this itself)

Just use nohup:
nohup /path/to/my/long/running/script

Thanks guys for your help.
nohup did the trick
-s