diff --git a/advanced/Templates/pihole-FTL.service b/advanced/Templates/pihole-FTL.service
index f03047ef..a70f37b5 100644
--- a/advanced/Templates/pihole-FTL.service
+++ b/advanced/Templates/pihole-FTL.service
@@ -86,7 +86,7 @@ start() {
     # Backward compatibility for user-scripts that still expect log files in /var/log instead of /var/log/pihole/
     # Should be removed with Pi-hole v6.0
     [ ! -f /var/log/pihole.log ] && ln -s /var/log/pihole/pihole.log /var/log/pihole.log
-    [ ! -f /var/log/pihole/pihole-FTL.log ] && ln -s /var/log/pihole/pihole-FTL.log /var/log/pihole-FTL.log
+    [ ! -f /var/log/pihole-FTL.log ] && ln -s /var/log/pihole/pihole-FTL.log /var/log/pihole-FTL.log
 
     if setcap CAP_NET_BIND_SERVICE,CAP_NET_RAW,CAP_NET_ADMIN,CAP_SYS_NICE,CAP_IPC_LOCK,CAP_CHOWN+eip "/usr/bin/pihole-FTL"; then
       su -s /bin/sh -c "/usr/bin/pihole-FTL" pihole