Logging

[RandumKiwi]

I thought Stef said (on irc) that whitespace doesn't matter anymore?

It doesn't in servercmdline.txt, but it does if you put the switch in the command line.

Of course, this all depends on how you're issuing these command line options...

... and, as such, it's good to see that AC is definitely logging correctly, based on your output above.

No effect. Here's the weird thing, I'm pretty sure castle.log is being created. But 1) I have to sudo vim to view it, 2) The contents contain 0 lines, 0 bytes (unlike where syslog is actually being logged to)

Note how your cfg has these:
$FileOwner syslog
$FileGroup adm

Are syslog/adm able to write to the directory the logfile is stored in?

P.S: On debian, those settings are root/adm by default.
P.P.S: You've restarted rsyslog service each time, before you tested, right?
P.P.P.S: For testing, please remove &~
P.P.P.P.S: If all else fails, do it like normal syslog, as mentioned by jamz. I've found rsyslog's syntax to be a PITA sometimes (make sure rsyslog is up to date!!!)