[ale] monitoring a web page

[fletch at phydeaux.org (Mike Fletcher)]

On Mar 22, 2006, at 7:54 AM, Paul Cartwright wrote:

> 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

Simple solution is to write a cron job that uses wget or curl to grab  
the page and MD5s the contents.  Compare that against a saved md5 and  
send email if it's different.  It'd then save off the current hash  
for the next run.