Thanks for the quick reply.
I do actually have a remote syslog server running on another machine and do have the ERL sending to it, however, I was under the impression that even if you send stuff to syslog, it is still written to the local /var/log files, which from what I see does indeed seem to be the case.
Having said that, I'm guessing there is probably an option that I can change that will change that behavior, but being new to all of this, I have not found it yet.