[ale] monitoring a web page

[Jerald Sheets]

Now that I'm out of the car, and can actually read the email...  :P

I'd probably wget the page, and store it.  Next pull, diff the new  
copy to the old.  If no output, ignore.  If output, then email you.   
Set that puppy up in cron, and you're set.

Sorry for the slightly mis-directed answer before.  However, I know  
with the scripting backend to Big Brother and Nagios, you can easily  
monitor web pages, and also monitor them for changes, but now that I  
can read the email, it's clearly overkill for what you want.

bash+wget+diff+mail+cron should do you in this case.


Jerald M. Sheets jr.
Sr. UNIX Systems Administrator
The Weather Channel Interactive
404.293.8762



On Mar 22, 2006, at 7:54 AM, Paul Cartwright wrote:

> I have a need to monitor a web page, and all of the linux software I
> have found has been ancient, non-supported, or I couldn't install it
> ( wrong java, no java...)
> anyone have something that works???
> and, if anyone is interested, what I'm looking for is when  
> registration
> opens up for this conference:
>
> http://cess.wcu.edu/np/index.html
>
> absolutely nothing to do with computers:)
> sometimes it is good to play in the dirt!
>
> -- 
> Paul Cartwright
> Registered Linux user # 367800
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