id,summary,reporter,owner,description,status,priority,milestone,component,version,resolution,keywords,cc,dependencies 27,OpenVZ containers do not appear to collect system logs in the container's /var/log,chaos@bbn.com,somebody,"I created an OpenVZ container on pc5.utah.geniracks.net. I notice that `/var/log` within the container appears to be empty. I would expect logs from the container's userspace to be stored in `/var/log` within the container for the experimenter to access. Output of `/var/log`, being empty: {{{ [chaos@virt1 ~]$ ls -l /var/log/ total 40 -rw------- 1 root utmp 0 May 18 01:55 btmp -rw------- 1 root utmp 0 Apr 12 01:53 btmp-20120518 drwx------ 2 root root 4096 Nov 21 07:31 httpd -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5840584 May 18 15:35 lastlog drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Nov 22 20:05 mail -rw------- 1 root root 0 Sep 13 2011 maillog -rw------- 1 root root 0 Sep 13 2011 messages drwxrwx--- 2 92 92 4096 Oct 18 2011 quagga -rw------- 1 root root 0 Sep 13 2011 secure -rw------- 1 root root 0 Sep 13 2011 spooler -rw------- 1 root root 0 Sep 13 2011 tallylog -rw-rw-r-- 1 root utmp 5760 May 18 15:35 wtmp -rw------- 1 root root 0 Apr 12 01:53 yum.log }}} Uname, fyi: {{{ [chaos@virt1 ~]$ uname -a Linux virt1.ecgtest.pgeni-gpolab-bbn-com.utah.geniracks.net 2.6.32-042stab049.6.emulab.1 #1 SMP Tue Apr 3 12:08:02 MDT 2012 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux }}} ",closed,major,,Monitoring,SPIRAL4,fixed,,,