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

       Walter de Jong <walter@heiho.net>

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

pam_shield 0.9.6                                   11 May 2012                                   shield-purge(8)

       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.

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

-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

       https://github.com/jtniehof/pam_shield

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