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  • You can use screen -x to reattach to the screen session and interact with whatever processes you have running there. ps showing a status of S doesn't mean that a process is hung necessarily, but merely that it's not actively seeking CPU allocation (or, more precisely, that it's waiting for something else to complete its execution). See the Process State Codes section of the man page for ps. Commented Aug 20, 2016 at 1:40