The syslog daemon was not started at boot time. Solved by running
eg. ntsysv.

Mark Weaver writes:
 > I would be seriously interested in finding out the answer to this myself,
 > since I've recently downloaded the ISO's for Mandrake 7.2 and
 > "had" planned on installing them as soon as I get the CD's burned. I'm not
 > so sure if there are weird things like that going on. I've come to really
 > rely on those logs as a source of system information as to what's going on
 > on my system.
 > 
 > -- 
 > Mark
..
 > On Sun, 3 Dec 2000 Svante Signell had this to say!
 > 
 > > After upgrade from 7.1 to 7.2 no (interesting) log files are created
 > > any longer in /var/log. Is logging disabled or are the logs written
 > > somewhere else? If they are disabled, where to enable them?
 > > 
 > > 
 > 
 > 
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