[wplug] web content monitoring script

[Bill]

John

The tool I was thinking of was httrack.  It doesnt look like it does
exactly what you want, but it has some similar functionality so you may
be modify it to do what you want.

-b

On Thu, 2003-10-23 at 14:26, Bill wrote:
> 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.
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Bill <bhalpin at collaborativefusion.com>