[Serusers] Log messages don't appear in /var/log/messages

[Cameron Beattie]

I am trying to debug my ser.cfg and so have inserted log statements in it. 
However they are not appearing in the messages file. I'm sure that there's 
something very basic I'm doing incorrectly. Relevant bits from my ser.cfg 
follows:
debug=8
fork=no
log_stderror=yes
...
route{
    log(1,"My dog has fleas/n");
...

Any suggestions greatfully received.

Regards

Cameron