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+#!/bin/sh
+
+# The default Debian ntp.conf enables logging of various statistics to
+# the /var/log/ntpstats directory.  The daemon automatically changes
+# to a new datestamped set of files at midnight, so all we need to do
+# is delete old ones, and compress the ones we're keeping so disk
+# usage is controlled.
+
+statsdir=$(cat /etc/ntp.conf | grep -v '^#' | sed -nr 's/^statsdir[[:space:]]+([^[:space:]]+).*$/\1/p')
+
+if [ -n "$statsdir" ] && [ -d "$statsdir" ]; then
+	# only keep a week's depth of these. Delete only files exactly
+	# within the directory and do not descend into subdirectories
+	# to avoid security risks on platforms where find is not using
+	# fts-library.
+	find "$statsdir" -maxdepth 1 -type f -mtime +7 -delete
+
+	# compress whatever is left to save space but make sure to really
+	# do it only in the expected directory.
+	cd "$statsdir" || exit 1
+	ls -d -- *stats.???????? > /dev/null 2>&1
+	if [ $? -eq 0 ]; then
+		# Note that gzip won't compress the file names that
+		# are hard links to the live/current files, so this
+		# compresses yesterday and previous, leaving the live
+		# log alone.  We supress the warnings gzip issues
+		# about not compressing the linked file.
+		gzip --best --quiet -- *stats.???????? 
+		return=$?
+		case $return in
+		    2)
+			exit 0			# squash all warnings
+			;;
+		    *)
+			exit $return	 	# but let real errors through
+			;;
+		esac
+	fi
+fi