[ale] monitoring a web page

[Bob Toxen]

See page 661 of my book.  It discusses how to monitor web pages for
changes.  No Java or even X is required.

Bob Toxen
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On Wed, Mar 22, 2006 at 08:06:00AM -0500, jsheets at yahoo.com wrote:
> We at The Weather Channel use Nagios on revenue generating machines.  We use Big Brother for eberything else.
> 
> In both cases, we monitor all manner of web pages.
> 
> Also, wget, cron, mailm and a shell script can do wonders.
> 
> Jerald Sheets
> -- Sent from My Treo
> (404) 293-8762
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> 
> From:  Paul Cartwright <paul_tbot at pcartwright.com>
> Subj:  [ale] monitoring a web page
> Date:  Wed Mar 22, 2006 7:55 am
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> To:  ALE <ale at ale.org>
> 
> 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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