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shield-purge(8) System Manager's Manual shield-purge(8)

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

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

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.


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Specify config file (default: /etc/security/shield.conf)


Verbose output for debugging purposes


Do not perform any updates


List all database entries


Delete all entries, even if unexpired

Walter de Jong <walter@heiho.net>

https://github.com/jtniehof/pam_shield

Copyright (C) 2007-2011 by Walter de Jong <walter@heiho.net>
Copyright 2010 Jonathan Niehof <jtniehof@gmail.com>

11 May 2012 pam_shield 0.9.6