Thanks for the pointer.  I'll take a look and see if I can get it to work.

> > Spent the last few days searching the net trying to find a program that can
> > monitor urls and alert when they change.  I found one possibility for KDE
> > called kwebwatch (kwebwatch.sourceforge.net), but it hasn't had an update
> > since January and won't compile in RH7.3.  Does anyone know of a URL
> > monitoring applet or program with similar features (can ignore parts of
> > pages).  Mostly I want this to monitor certain sites (like MySQL.com or
> > php.net) for new versions of software.
> 
> This one seems right up your alley:
> http://freshmeat.net/projects/urlmon/?topic_id=20