This is happening for me too. For all my droplets :(

This happend to me to, is it Ubuntu or DO that causes the problem?

Are you still experiencing this? If so, can you please open up a ticker so we can take a look?

Yes, still a problem.
Droplet was created 8th of August 2013. Ubuntu 12.04.

@saturlight: Can you please open up a support ticket? Thanks!

In creating a brand-new Ubuntu 12.04 x64 droplet, my permissions look all fine:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/4isejd8h13tr0j4/log2013082401.txt

-Will

I created an Ubuntu 12.04 64-bit Droplet the other day (9 Oct 2013) and ran into this problem. 2 days of logs that I needed to consult... never written to disk. WTF?

I had to add the following to my Puppet manifest just to make logging work:

file {"/var/log/messages":
owner => syslog,
group => adm,
mode => 0644,
}

file {"/var/log/debug":
owner => syslog,
group => adm,
mode => 0644,
}

file {"/var/log/syslog":
owner => syslog,
group => adm,
mode => 0644,
}

@Douglas: Can you please open up a support ticket?

What was the outcome of this?

I've just gone to check the logs on my droplet for something, and they're empty and haven't been written to since June. The permissions are broken as per the above also.

@do: It was resolved. If a new droplet has this issue, please open up a support ticket.