[BlueOnyx:22791] Services not starting on 5209R - error writing logs?

[Colin Jack]

build 20180819 for a 5209R in en_US

One of our VPS has got the rats and numerous services won’t start.
Httpd, mariadb, php-fpm cced.init etc.
Systemctl status suggested that couldn’t write logs so wouldn't start.
/var/log folder had all the correct permissions & ownership but was devoid of logs.
This VPS has been fine for years … 

I recreated the /var/log folder with correct ownership and permissions but still no good.
Manually created the folder & log files for each service individually and was able to start them although still no messages log etc.

[root@ log]# ls -al
total 112
drwxrwxrwx  6 root root  4096 Mar 31 16:19 .
drwxr-xr-x 26 root root  4096 Mar 31 15:36 ..
-rw-------  1 root root 88633 Mar 31 16:20 apf_log
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root  4096 Mar 31 16:09 httpd
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root  4096 Mar 31 16:05 mariadb
drwxrwxrwx  2 root root  4096 Mar 31 16:19 php-fpm
drwxrwxrwx  2 root root  4096 Mar 31 16:09 tomcat

Interesting the total 112?

Httpd and cced are running but I still cannot get onto the GUI.

Anybody able to give me a clue as to what has caused this and how to get sweetness back?
As an aside, this is a VPS on Virtbiz platform and they had to restart it yesterday because it wasn't available. 
Just wonder if this was anything to do with this problem.

Thanks

Colin