[wplug] web content monitoring script

[Bill]

John

I dont know of any *nix specific tools, but there is a win-based tool to
do what you want, Right Web Monitor.  You could probably run it under
wine.  I had a very simple CLI web browser on my old box that I want to
think could do that.  My old box is down right now, as soon as I get it
back up I'll check it and let you know.

-bill

On Thu, 2003-10-23 at 13:49, John Harrold 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.
-- 
Bill <bhalpin at collaborativefusion.com>