Possible to run commands in a screen through cron jobs?

Question

I currently have an application running in a screen. I would like to run some commands in the screen through a cron job but would like to know if this is possible.

Using CentOS

Why? (What are you trying to accomplish. State your end goal, not intermediate ones.) — voretaq7, Nov 12 '12 at 06:23

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Nov 11 '12 at 16:42

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Screen manpage says that

-d -m
    Start screen in detached mode. This creates a new session but doesn't
    attach to it. This is useful for system startup scripts.

answered Nov 11 '12 at 16:42

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