NAME

shield-purge - manage hosts rules for the pam_shield package.

SYNOPSIS

shield-purge [-hdnlf] [-c config file]

DESCRIPTION

shield-purge deletes old entries from the database. A binary for the pam-shield module, shield_purge is not intended to be invoked manualy. It is a halper program for job in crontab.

shield-purge clears records from the database that are older than the time specified by retention in shield.conf(5).

This program is part of the PAM-shield package. PAM-shield comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY. This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions. See the GNU General Public Licence for details.

OPTIONS

-h, --help: Display this information
-c, --conf=file: Specify config file (default: /etc/security/shield.conf)
-d, --debug: Verbose output for debugging purposes
-n, --dry-run: Do not perform any updates
-l, --list: List all database entries
-f, --force: Delete all entries, even if unexpired

AUTHOR

Walter de Jong <walter@heiho.net>

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