I just launched a precise image from http://cloud.ubuntu.com/ami/ and checked the contents of /var/log (as user root). Everything in /var/log had been created after the server had been started. It seems that all content of /var/log is ignored when the server image is created.
I just launched a precise image from http:// cloud.ubuntu. com/ami/ and checked the contents of /var/log (as user root). Everything in /var/log had been created after the server had been started. It seems that all content of /var/log is ignored when the server image is created.