diff --git a/advanced/Scripts/piholeLogFlush.sh b/advanced/Scripts/piholeLogFlush.sh
index 0bc998ac..d9ac5ebd 100755
--- a/advanced/Scripts/piholeLogFlush.sh
+++ b/advanced/Scripts/piholeLogFlush.sh
@@ -16,12 +16,10 @@ source ${colfile}
 # Constructed to return nothing when
 # a) the setting is not present in the config file, or
 # b) the setting is commented out (e.g. "#DBFILE=...")
-DBFILE="$(sed -n -e 's/^\s^.DBFILE\s*=\s*//p' /etc/pihole/pihole-FTL.conf 2> /dev/null)"
-# Test for empty string. Use standard path in this case.
-if [ -z "$DBFILE" ]; then
-  DBFILE="/etc/pihole/pihole-FTL.db"
+FTLconf="/etc/pihole/pihole-FTL.conf"
+if [ -e "$FTLconf" ]; then
+  DBFILE="$(sed -n -e 's/^\s*DBFILE\s*=\s*//p' ${FTLconf})"
 fi
-
 if [[ "$@" != *"quiet"* ]]; then
   echo -ne "  ${INFO} Flushing /var/log/pihole.log ..."
 fi