You can start processes in the background with nohup.

Example:

nohup ./myprog -arg1 -arg2 &

Output:

[1] 1769    
nohup: ignoring input and appending output to 'nohup.out'

Remember to kill the task later with the given PID:

kill 1769

You can start processes in the background with nohup.

Example:

nohup ./myprog -arg1 -arg2 &

Output:

[1] 1769    
nohup: ignoring input and appending output to 'nohup.out'

Remember to kill the task later with the given PID:

kill 1769

To bring the process in the foreground you must enter the jobnumber, in this case [1]:

fg %1