Can't generate Rails log files

Hello,

I'm running RoR via a lighttpd webserver on linux. When my log files got too large I deleted them, but now I can't seem to get my app to write new logs.

I've tried re-creating the empty log files by hand and setting permissions and I've restarted lighttpd.

Does anyone have any suggestions or an explanation for what has occured?

Thanks for the assist,

Allen