To avoid useless write to my SSD I've moved `/var/log` (and `/tmp`) to RAM via `/etc/fstab`:

```
cat >> /etc/fstab <<'EOT'
tmpfs    /tmp        tmpfs    defaults,size=1g                                0    0
tmpfs    /var/log    tmpfs    defaults,nosuid,nodev,noatime,mode=0755,size=5% 0    0
EOT

```

But since then I have no `/var/log/syslog` file.

I thought it was because `/var/log` is not yet mounted when `rsyslogd` starts but it still doesn't work when manually restarting the service (when I'm sure `/var/log` is mounted).

I'm using:

* Ubuntu 14.04.2
* Kernel 3.13.0-45
* rsyslog 7.4.4-1ubuntu2.5