server monitoring scripts for shared hosting?

[Eric Cope]

they seem to think you do have SSH access:
http://support.hostgator.com/articles/hosting-guide/lets-get-started/how-do-i-get-and-use-ssh-access#Reseller


I'm not sure if you can install it locally via upload...

Eric

On Wed, Nov 19, 2014 at 10:34 PM, David Schwartz <newsletters at thetoolwiz.com
> 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 <eric.cope at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> can you install it locally? run it in userspace?
>
> On Wed, Nov 19, 2014 at 9:42 PM, David Schwartz <
> newsletters at thetoolwiz.com> 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
>>
>>
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