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 <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> can you install it locally? run it in userspace?
> 
> On Wed, Nov 19, 2014 at 9:42 PM, David Schwartz <[email protected] 
> <mailto:[email protected]>> 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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