#!/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 -n 's/statsdir \([^ ][^ ]*\)/\1/p') if [ -n "$statsdir" ] && [ -d "$statsdir" ]; then # only keep a week's depth of these find "$statsdir" -type f -mtime +7 -exec rm {} \; # compress whatever is left to save space cd "$statsdir" ls loopstats.???????? peerstats.???????? > /dev/null 2>&1 if [ $? -eq 0 ]; then # Note that gzip won't compress the file names that # are hard links to the live/current files, so this # compresses yesterday and previous, leaving the live # log alone. We supress the warnings gzip issues # about not compressing the linked file. gzip --best --quiet loopstats.???????? peerstats.???????? return=$? case $return in 2) exit 0 # squash all warnings ;; *) exit $return # but let real errors through ;; esac fi fi