Comment 5 for bug 1332538

My syslog stopped growing, noted owner change:

phablet@ubuntu-phablet:~$ ls -l /var/log
total 129012
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Apr 30 06:25 alternatives.log
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 346 Apr 29 14:55 alternatives.log.1
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1476 Feb 23 2014 alternatives.log.2.gz
-rw-r----- 1 root adm 0 Sep 15 10:17 apport.log
-rw-r----- 1 root adm 866 Sep 15 09:43 apport.log.1
-rw-r----- 1 root adm 449 Sep 12 10:04 apport.log.2.gz
-rw-r----- 1 root adm 548 Sep 11 19:02 apport.log.3.gz
-rw-r----- 1 root adm 308 Sep 10 09:12 apport.log.4.gz
-rw-r----- 1 root adm 83 Sep 9 16:32 apport.log.5.gz
-rw-r----- 1 root adm 473 Sep 8 17:41 apport.log.6.gz
-rw-r----- 1 root adm 515 Sep 8 09:47 apport.log.7.gz
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Sep 1 00:19 apt
-rw-r----- 1 usermetrics adm 599137 Aug 20 09:04 auth.log
-rw-r----- 1 usermetrics adm 143042 Jul 27 06:49 auth.log.1
-rw-r----- 1 usermetrics adm 10891 Jul 21 06:27 auth.log.2.gz
-rw-r----- 1 usermetrics adm 7086 Jul 13 07:08 auth.log.3.gz
-rw-r----- 1 usermetrics adm 2968 Jul 6 06:26 auth.log.4.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 65466 Feb 23 2014 bootstrap.log
-rw-rw---- 1 root utmp 0 Sep 1 00:19 btmp
-rw-rw---- 1 root utmp 0 Aug 1 06:25 btmp.1
-rw-r----- 1 root adm 68038 Sep 15 14:52 dmesg
-rw-r----- 1 root adm 49406 Sep 15 14:50 dmesg.0
-rw-r----- 1 root adm 17487 Sep 15 09:45 dmesg.1.gz
-rw-r----- 1 root adm 16090 Sep 15 09:43 dmesg.2.gz
-rw-r----- 1 root adm 19710 Sep 12 12:41 dmesg.3.gz
-rw-r----- 1 root adm 15836 Sep 12 12:39 dmesg.4.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 13392 Sep 5 10:05 dpkg.log
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 21400 Aug 29 08:56 dpkg.log.1
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4885 Jul 25 14:46 dpkg.log.2.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1116 Jun 20 14:53 dpkg.log.3.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 642 Jun 2 17:50 dpkg.log.4.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 166 Apr 29 14:55 dpkg.log.5.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 382 Apr 15 16:29 dpkg.log.6.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 57849 Feb 23 2014 dpkg.log.7.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 768288 Feb 23 2014 faillog
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 976 Feb 23 2014 fontconfig.log
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Feb 24 2014 fsck
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Feb 24 2014 installer
-rw-r----- 1 usermetrics adm 0 Jul 27 07:47 kern.log
-rw-r----- 1 usermetrics adm 61050880 Jul 23 16:01 kern.log.1
-rw-r----- 1 usermetrics adm 13139240 Jul 21 06:35 kern.log.2.gz
-rw-r----- 1 usermetrics adm 10502851 Jul 13 07:22 kern.log.3.gz
-rw-r----- 1 usermetrics adm 6091087 Jul 6 06:27 kern.log.4.gz
-rw-rw-r-- 1 root utmp 9347504 Sep 15 15:12 lastlog
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Sep 15 14:53 lightdm
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Apr 9 16:30 lxc
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 53174 May 17 04:34 pm-powersave.log
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 145082 Apr 30 17:16 pm-powersave.log.1
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1212 Apr 1 14:37 pm-powersave.log.2.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 569 Feb 28 2014 pm-powersave.log.3.gz
-rw-r----- 1 usermetrics adm 5834017 Aug 20 09:04 syslog
-rw-r----- 1 usermetrics adm 7914503 Aug 1 06:25 syslog.2
-rw-r----- 1 usermetrics adm 4069377 Jul 31 06:46 syslog.2.gz
-rw-r----- 1 usermetrics adm 4574517 Jul 30 06:56 syslog.3.gz
-rw-r----- 1 usermetrics adm 1963161 Jul 28 06:48 syslog.4.gz
-rw-r----- 1 usermetrics adm 2014220 Jul 27 06:57 syslog.5.gz
-rw-r----- 1 usermetrics adm 1852850 Jul 26 07:08 syslog.6.gz
-rw-r----- 1 usermetrics adm 796570 Jul 25 06:27 syslog.7.gz
drwxrws--- 2 root root 4096 Feb 24 2014 system-image
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 32768 Sep 15 14:47 ubuntu-download-manager
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 24576 Sep 15 15:08 ubuntu-location-service
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 366680 Sep 15 14:49 udev
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Feb 28 2014 unattended-upgrades
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 20480 Sep 15 14:49 upstart
-rw-rw-r-- 1 root utmp 82176 Sep 15 15:12 wtmp
-rw-rw-r-- 1 root utmp 120576 Aug 29 22:39 wtmp.1