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>

PROJECT LOCATION

       https://github.com/jtniehof/pam_shield

COPYRIGHT

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