On 20/10/05, Maciej Żenczykowski <maze at cela.pl> wrote: > > thing is, i need to learn how to make a new screen and be able to attach > > back to it as i wasnt able o attach to this one even though it was still > > there till done and went away. > > "screen -r" to reattach or "screen -d -r" to detach another connection and > reattach here. Yep, that's pretty much it. # Run screen screen # Do stuff stuff # Then "detach" (the meta key's usually CTRL) CTRL-a d <--- This detaches from your session but leaves it running # SSH back to the system then re-attach screen -r It's all pretty well explained and documented in the Gentoo Wiki as someone earlier posted. http://gentoo-wiki.com/TIP_Using_screen#First_steps Will.