I confirm that the patch in comment #1 works on Lucid. Setting the
$DirOwner and $DirGroup was essential to have rsyslog to creating new
directories that are part of the path to the dynamic files
("/var/log/central/%$YEAR%/%$MONTH%/%$DAY%/%HOSTNAME%.log").

I agree that using "$PrivDropToGroup adm" comes with a bigger risk than
using "$PrivDropToGroup syslog" but the former provides out of the box
compatibility with other tools like logcheck.

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  /etc/rsyslog.conf permissions incorrect/missing for creation of
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