Privoxy log files not generated

I have the following in my config file for privoxy but no file ever gets created


confdir /etc/privoxy
logdir /etc/privoxy

logfile privoxy.log
debug 1      # Log startup messages
debug 1024   # Log connection-related messages
debug 4096   # Log data sent and received
debug 8192   # Log forwarding rule handling
debug 2
debug 128
debug 65536


any ideas?
