can't cd to /var/log/rabbitmq

[gil0109]

When starting up, I see the following errors:
/usr/lib/rabbitmq/bin/rabbitmq-plugins: 86: cd: can't cd to /var/log/rabbitmq
/usr/lib/rabbitmq/bin/rabbitmq-server: 86: cd: can't cd to /var/log/rabbitmq
2018-11-14 03:13:32.860 [error] <0.98.0> Failed to open crash log file /var/log/rabbitmq/log/crash.log with error: permission denied

And running any command also shows the following error:
$ rabbitmqctl list_queues
/usr/lib/rabbitmq/bin/rabbitmqctl: 86: cd: can't cd to /var/log/rabbitmq
Timeout: 60.0 seconds ...
Listing queues for vhost / ...

Most of the Errors are removed if we add an environment variable: RABBITMQ_LOG_BASE = -