diff --git a/lib/cinder b/lib/cinder
index 03328f3..ba5bd04 100644
--- a/lib/cinder
+++ b/lib/cinder
@@ -473,7 +473,7 @@
     fi
 }
 
-# start_cinder() - Start running processes, including screen
+# start_cinder() - Start running processes
 function start_cinder {
     local service_port=$CINDER_SERVICE_PORT
     local service_protocol=$CINDER_SERVICE_PROTOCOL
@@ -533,12 +533,9 @@
 # stop_cinder() - Stop running processes
 function stop_cinder {
     stop_process c-api
-
-    # Kill the cinder screen windows
-    local serv
-    for serv in c-bak c-sch c-vol; do
-        stop_process $serv
-    done
+    stop_process c-bak
+    stop_process c-sch
+    stop_process c-vol
 }
 
 # create_volume_types() - Create Cinder's configured volume types
diff --git a/lib/dstat b/lib/dstat
index 982b703..fe38d75 100644
--- a/lib/dstat
+++ b/lib/dstat
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@
 _XTRACE_DSTAT=$(set +o | grep xtrace)
 set +o xtrace
 
-# start_dstat() - Start running processes, including screen
+# start_dstat() - Start running processes
 function start_dstat {
     # A better kind of sysstat, with the top process per time slice
     run_process dstat "$TOP_DIR/tools/dstat.sh $LOGDIR"
diff --git a/lib/glance b/lib/glance
index 0a5b9f5..6e4a925 100644
--- a/lib/glance
+++ b/lib/glance
@@ -333,7 +333,7 @@
     setup_develop $GLANCE_DIR
 }
 
-# start_glance() - Start running processes, including screen
+# start_glance() - Start running processes
 function start_glance {
     local service_protocol=$GLANCE_SERVICE_PROTOCOL
     if is_service_enabled tls-proxy; then
@@ -358,7 +358,6 @@
 
 # stop_glance() - Stop running processes
 function stop_glance {
-    # Kill the Glance screen windows
     stop_process g-api
     stop_process g-reg
 }
diff --git a/lib/horizon b/lib/horizon
index becc5a0..3d2f68d 100644
--- a/lib/horizon
+++ b/lib/horizon
@@ -181,13 +181,12 @@
     git_clone $HORIZON_REPO $HORIZON_DIR $HORIZON_BRANCH
 }
 
-# start_horizon() - Start running processes, including screen
+# start_horizon() - Start running processes
 function start_horizon {
     restart_apache_server
-    tail_log horizon /var/log/$APACHE_NAME/horizon_error.log
 }
 
-# stop_horizon() - Stop running processes (non-screen)
+# stop_horizon() - Stop running processes
 function stop_horizon {
     stop_apache_server
 }
diff --git a/lib/keystone b/lib/keystone
index 685891e..69aadb6 100644
--- a/lib/keystone
+++ b/lib/keystone
@@ -536,7 +536,7 @@
     fi
 }
 
-# start_keystone() - Start running processes, including screen
+# start_keystone() - Start running processes
 function start_keystone {
     # Get right service port for testing
     local service_port=$KEYSTONE_SERVICE_PORT
@@ -549,8 +549,6 @@
     if [ "$KEYSTONE_DEPLOY" == "mod_wsgi" ]; then
         enable_apache_site keystone
         restart_apache_server
-        tail_log key /var/log/$APACHE_NAME/keystone.log
-        tail_log key-access /var/log/$APACHE_NAME/keystone_access.log
     else # uwsgi
         run_process keystone "$KEYSTONE_BIN_DIR/uwsgi --ini $KEYSTONE_PUBLIC_UWSGI_CONF" ""
     fi
@@ -585,8 +583,6 @@
     else
         stop_process keystone
     fi
-    # Kill the Keystone screen window
-    stop_process key
 }
 
 # bootstrap_keystone() - Initialize user, role and project
diff --git a/lib/neutron b/lib/neutron
index 2a660ec..a531288 100644
--- a/lib/neutron
+++ b/lib/neutron
@@ -409,7 +409,7 @@
     fi
 }
 
-# start_neutron() - Start running processes, including screen
+# start_neutron() - Start running processes
 function start_neutron_new {
     # Start up the neutron agents if enabled
     # TODO(sc68cal) Make this pluggable so different DevStack plugins for different Neutron plugins
@@ -446,7 +446,7 @@
     fi
 }
 
-# stop_neutron() - Stop running processes (non-screen)
+# stop_neutron() - Stop running processes
 function stop_neutron_new {
     for serv in neutron-api neutron-agent neutron-l3; do
         stop_process $serv
diff --git a/lib/neutron-legacy b/lib/neutron-legacy
index 784f3a8..c8d2540 100644
--- a/lib/neutron-legacy
+++ b/lib/neutron-legacy
@@ -455,7 +455,7 @@
     fi
 }
 
-# Start running processes, including screen
+# Start running processes
 function start_neutron_service_and_check {
     local service_port=$Q_PORT
     local service_protocol=$Q_PROTOCOL
@@ -524,7 +524,7 @@
     stop_process q-agt
 }
 
-# stop_mutnauq_other() - Stop running processes (non-screen)
+# stop_mutnauq_other() - Stop running processes
 function stop_mutnauq_other {
     if is_service_enabled q-dhcp; then
         stop_process q-dhcp
diff --git a/lib/nova b/lib/nova
index bd6695a..5b78972 100644
--- a/lib/nova
+++ b/lib/nova
@@ -882,7 +882,7 @@
     export PATH=$old_path
 }
 
-# start_nova() - Start running processes, including screen
+# start_nova() - Start running processes
 function start_nova_rest {
     # Hack to set the path for rootwrap
     local old_path=$PATH
@@ -999,7 +999,7 @@
     done
 }
 
-# stop_nova() - Stop running processes (non-screen)
+# stop_nova() - Stop running processes
 function stop_nova {
     stop_nova_rest
     stop_nova_conductor
diff --git a/lib/swift b/lib/swift
index 455740e..45f6793 100644
--- a/lib/swift
+++ b/lib/swift
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
 #
 # - ``functions`` file
 # - ``apache`` file
-# - ``DEST``, ``SCREEN_NAME``, `SWIFT_HASH` must be defined
+# - ``DEST``, `SWIFT_HASH` must be defined
 # - ``STACK_USER`` must be defined
 # - ``SWIFT_DATA_DIR`` or ``DATA_DIR`` must be defined
 # - ``lib/keystone`` file
@@ -780,7 +780,7 @@
     fi
 }
 
-# start_swift() - Start running processes, including screen
+# start_swift() - Start running processes
 function start_swift {
     # (re)start memcached to make sure we have a clean memcache.
     restart_service memcached
@@ -799,13 +799,6 @@
         restart_apache_server
         # The rest of the services should be started in backgroud
         swift-init --run-dir=${SWIFT_DATA_DIR}/run rest start
-        # Be we still want the logs of Swift Proxy in our screen session
-        tail_log s-proxy /var/log/$APACHE_NAME/proxy-server
-        if [[ ${SWIFT_REPLICAS} == 1 ]]; then
-            for type in object container account; do
-                tail_log s-${type} /var/log/$APACHE_NAME/${type}-server-1
-            done
-        fi
         return 0
     fi
 
@@ -859,7 +852,7 @@
     fi
 }
 
-# stop_swift() - Stop running processes (non-screen)
+# stop_swift() - Stop running processes
 function stop_swift {
     local type
 
diff --git a/lib/template b/lib/template
index 25d653c..e6d0032 100644
--- a/lib/template
+++ b/lib/template
@@ -81,7 +81,7 @@
     :
 }
 
-# start_XXXX() - Start running processes, including screen
+# start_XXXX() - Start running processes
 function start_XXXX {
     # The quoted command must be a single command and not include an
     # shell metacharacters, redirections or shell builtins.
@@ -89,7 +89,7 @@
     :
 }
 
-# stop_XXXX() - Stop running processes (non-screen)
+# stop_XXXX() - Stop running processes
 function stop_XXXX {
     # for serv in serv-a serv-b; do
     #     stop_process $serv