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.
−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
Walter de Jong <walter AT heiho DOT net>
https://github.com/jtniehof/pam_shield
Copyright (C) 2007-2011 by Walter de Jong <walter AT heiho DOT net>
Copyright 2010 Jonathan Niehof <jtniehof AT gmail DOT com>