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.TH shield-purge 8 "11 May 2012" "pam_shield 0.9.6"
.SH NAME
shield-purge \- manage hosts rules for the pam_shield package.
.SH SYNOPSIS
.BI "shield-purge [-hdnlf] [-c config file]"
.SH 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.

.B shield-purge
clears records from the database that are older than the time specified by
.B retention
in
.BR 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.
.SH OPTIONS
.LP
.IP \fB\-h,\ \-\-help\fR
.br
Display this information

.IP \fB\-c,\ \-\-conf=file\fR
.br
Specify config file (default: /etc/security/shield.conf)

.IP \fB\-d,\ \-\-debug\fR
.br
Verbose output for debugging purposes

.IP \fB\-n,\ \-\-dry\-run\fR
.br
Do not perform any updates

.IP \fB\-l,\ \-\-list\fR
.br
List all database entries

.IP \fB\-f,\ \-\-force\fR
.br
Delete all entries, even if unexpired

.SH AUTHOR
.br
Walter de Jong
<walter@heiho.net>

.SH PROJECT LOCATION
https://github.com/jtniehof/pam_shield

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