[uml-user] Stranges problems: user mail creates a file, but owner is root:root

[umluser <um...@ke...>]

mail@RBG:/var/log$ id
uid=8(mail) gid=8(mail) groups=8(mail)
mail@RBG:/var/log$ pwd
/var/log
mail@RBG:/var/log$ touch testfile
touch: setting times of `testfile': Permission denied
mail@RBG:/var/log$ ls -la testfile
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root            0 May 26 23:18 testfile
mail@RBG:/var/log$ umask
0022
mail@RBG:/var/log$ ls -lad .
drwxrwxrwx    8 root     root         4096 May 26 04:00 .

UML version :
Linux version 2.4.24-1um (ro...@ma...) (gcc version 3.3.3 
(Debian 20040401)) #2 Tue May 25 21:51:51 CEST 2004

directory /var/log is on host, via hostfs

Does someone of you have an idea about that ?
I can't use a newer uml kernel, because i can't get it working (see next 
mail)

Thanks,
Kris