[ale] monitoring a web page

Christopher Fowler cfowler at outpostsentinel.com
Wed Mar 22 12:00:06 EST 2006


Just use md5sum


On Wed, 2006-03-22 at 11:52 -0500, Paul Cartwright wrote:
> On Wed March 22 2006 11:24 am, joh6nn at hotpop.com wrote:
> > you need the perl MD5 module, it looks like.  try "cpan MD5" from a
> > terminal.
> striking out again:
> cpan MD5
> CPAN: Storable loaded ok
> CPAN: LWP::UserAgent loaded ok
> Fetching with LWP:
>   ftp://archive.progeny.com/CPAN/authors/01mailrc.txt.gz
> LWP failed with code[404] message[File '01mailrc.txt.gz' not found]
> Fetching with Net::FTP:
>   ftp://archive.progeny.com/CPAN/authors/01mailrc.txt.gz
> Couldn't fetch 01mailrc.txt.gz from archive.progeny.com
> Fetching with LWP:
>   ftp://carroll.cac.psu.edu/pub/CPAN/authors/01mailrc.txt.gz
> LWP failed with code[404] message[File '01mailrc.txt.gz' not found]
> Fetching with Net::FTP:
>   ftp://carroll.cac.psu.edu/pub/CPAN/authors/01mailrc.txt.gz
> Couldn't fetch 01mailrc.txt.gz from carroll.cac.psu.edu
> Fetching with LWP:
>   ftp://cpan.cs.utah.edu/pub/CPAN/authors/01mailrc.txt.gz
> LWP failed with code[404] message[File '01mailrc.txt.gz' not found]
> Fetching with Net::FTP:
>   ftp://cpan.cs.utah.edu/pub/CPAN/authors/01mailrc.txt.gz
> Couldn't fetch 01mailrc.txt.gz from cpan.cs.utah.edu
> Fetching with LWP:
>   ftp://cpan.cse.msu.edu/authors/01mailrc.txt.gz
> 
> (this is just an exercise, I DO have it setup now with a bash script... 
> wget, diff, mail and it's running in cron)
> but I'm always open to new application that do things better!




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