You want to be notified when someone connects on your server with ssh? Add this sshrc config file to your ssh config directory (/etc/ssh):: emailfrom=root@`hostname` emailto=<_your address here_> fulluser="$USER@"`hostname` date822=`date -R` ldate=`date "+%A %e %B %Y a %Hh%M %Z"` host_ip="`echo $SSH_CONNECTION | awk '{print $1}'`" host_dns="`host ${host_ip}`" echo -e "\ From: $emailfrom To: $emailto Subject: [SSHRC] ssh session - $USER Date: $date822 User-Agent: sshrc Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Hello, A ssh session version $SHLVL opened, with local user $fulluser, $ldate, from host $SSH_CONNECTION. host DNS : $host_dns - -- sshrc" | /usr/sbin/sendmail -t Add your email to the emailto variable, test and modify to your needs. Thanks to Léa for her ssh post on this.