[wplug] web content monitoring script
Chris
vze2f6h6 at verizon.net
Thu Oct 23 14:02:13 EDT 2003
wplug-admin at wplug.org wrote:
> Sometime in October Henry Umansky assaulted the keyboard and produced:
>
>> Funny you ask, I'm monitoring my web traffic for a few of the sites I'm
>> hosting with the following command:
>>
>> tail -f -c 1 /www/*/logs/access_log
>>
>> I just keep an SSH window open with that command running.
>
> i guess i should be more specific. take this for example. say
> i want to know when a new story is posted on slashdot:
>
> http://slashdot.org/
> i can probably write something myself, but why reinvent the wheel if it
> already exists.
You can grab their RSS feed (http://slashdot.org/index.rss). There is
software out there that will check the feeds you tell it to and then display
them nicely for you. I can't think of the url for that right now.
Chris Romano
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