syslog-ng 3.1.2-1~lucid1 doesn't run as syslog user

[ghstridr]

package installs and runs as root user, unlike rsyslogd which runs as the syslog user.
Most of the files under /var/log are owned with rw perms for syslog, not root.
As a result, logs like auth, daemon, messages, syslog, etc do not get updated.
If you start syslog-ng in the foreground in debug mode you will see permission denied for files in that dir.
This can probably be easily mitigated by updating the init.d script.
This is currently happening on:
Description: Ubuntu 10.04.3 LTS
Release: 10.04