email notification

[bethmrogers]

Several of us on another list are interested in finding a way to notify the webmaster if a site has been hacked. I've seen on some sites a place to click and be added to a list that will be notified when the site is updated, but of course now that I need to see one, I can't remember one that has it. If I could find a site that does this, I believe I could figure out how to work it.
Do any of you know a script that would do this? And am I right in thinking that something like this work if we used a "hidden" script that would only notify the webmaster? (I"m also interested in using the script on one of my sites, too.)
Thanks in advance for all your help - I'm really learning more and more everytime I come here - I thought I would never even be able to understand Javascript (and I still don't, mostly) but it's beginning to make some sense. One day I hope to know enough to be able to help someone else.

[beetle]

Well, javascript won't do this. Mailing lists are handles one of two ways

1) the owner of the site manually adds users to something like an Outlook Group and sends out emails when the site has been updates
2) A database is used to maintain the list of emails, etc, but the emails are still sent manually, most of the time

[bethmrogers]

I figured it was going to be something like this - I appreciate your quick response. Do you have any other suggestions?

[beetle]

Well, that depends on what you mean by "hacked".

[bethmrogers]

My family's site was hacked year before last - they completely changed the look of the site - it changed to something along the lines of "everyone loves spam" (not the lunchmeat<grin> ). My brother owns the server it was on, and he took it down before I even got to see what they did (I design the website), so I have no idea what they really did. I'm just basically looking for something that would notify me that the code has been changed. A friend of mine offered to create a cron job to put on the server, but I was hoping to not have to do that.
Anyway, thanks again for your quick response....

[beetle]

If the website is hacked like that, how can a device of the website notify you? That would be like having a computer program that tells you that your computer has just shut down.

Better get that cron job.

[bethmrogers]

I see your point. I guess I was thinking along the lines of having the code on a hidden page or something.
Oh, well, cron job it is. thanks anyway...