Automatically (or more easily) reconnect to a screen session after network interruption
ADDED: This question is now, I believe, subsumed by this one: Using GNU Screen completely transparently and automatically See also this related question: https://superuser.com/questions/147873/ssh-sessions-in-xterms-freeze-for-many-minutes-whenever-they-disconnect Original question: It would be nice if there were a way to ssh to a machine and immediately reconnect to a specific screen session. You can do this: laptop> ssh server.com screen -ls and it will show a list of screens available on server.com like so [1]: 123.pts-1 456.pts-2 And then you might try to do this: laptop> ssh server.com