Last time I checked Hostgator will give you shell access for a one time charge of $10 per virtual host on their reseller accounts. There is more to your story and a problem I would think some of us have. I was bit by the recent Drupal exploit. Security is the down side of open source. I was bit several years ago because of an exploit in an open source app. It literally feels like a war zone out there. I recently found a Drupal install on one of my domains that I had forgotten I had put out there. I, like you David, tend to set it and forget it. Not any more. On 2014-11-19 23:34, David Schwartz wrote: > It’s a shared (reseller) hosting account at HostGator. > > I can upload scripts and set them up to run under cron (via cPanel), > but I don’t have SSH access. > > -David > >> On Nov 19, 2014, at 9:51 PM, Eric Cope wrote: >> >> can you install it locally? run it in userspace? >> >> On Wed, Nov 19, 2014 at 9:42 PM, David Schwartz >> wrote: >> >>> Does anybody know of any scripts like tripwire that are designed >>> to be installed on shared hosting accounts to alert you to >>> unexpected changes? >>> >>> Tripwire works by taking an inventory of the folders and files >>> you want to monitor. It then will do a scan periodically via a >>> cron entry and compare the file signatures with those recorded >>> previously, as well as the two sets of file lists. Any new, >>> modified, or deleted files will be reported to you via email or >>> something like that. >>> >>> Somebody hacked into one of my websites through an exploit on an >>> old WP plugin that I neglected to update. I have no idea when it >>> happened, but just learned about it last week. I don’t pay a lot >>> of attention to most of my sites, so I thought it would make sense >>> to install something like tripwire to look for unexpected changes. >>> (Tripwire itself needs to be installed in the root and needs root >>> access, AFAIK. Maybe not. Suggestions welcome!) >>> >>> -David >>> >>> --------------------------------------------------- >>> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org >>> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >>> http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss [1] >> >> --------------------------------------------------- >> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org >> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >> http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss [1] > > > > Links: > ------ > [1] http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss -- Keith Smith --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss