I would use: nohup yum -y update & and walk away P. Maciej Z.enczykowski 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. > > Cheers, > MaZe. > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos