Out of the box the Nagios Plugins package has a check_file_age plugin.  Well, that only checks to see if the file has been modified in the last specified time period and alerts if the file has NOT changed recently.  I needed the exact opposite, to check to see if the file has been modified. 

The "reversal" can be accomplished by changing two ">" symbols to "<" in the comparisons of the function.  Of course, I changed the few name occurances of the plugin to a new name as well.  This is a good sanity check for when any critical config file that I designate is changed, it will alert the IT team.  Great for developers with sudo access touching key config files they should not be, such as the http.conf file.