Loads simpler to do the following:
## /etc/haproxy/haproxy.cfg
global
log /dev/log local0 notice
## /etc/rsyslog.d/49-haproxy.conf
# Create an additional socket in haproxy's chroot in order
# to allow logging via /dev/log to chroot'ed HAProxy processes
$AddUnixListenSocket /var/lib/haproxy/dev/log
# Send HAProxy messages to a dedicated logfile
if $programname startswith 'haproxy' then /var/log/haproxy.log
&~
I believe most of the above is included in Vincent Bernat's very nice
Ubuntu/Debian packages, https://launchpad.net/~vbernat
Ramin
