diff --git a/etherlink/CHANGES_NODE.md b/etherlink/CHANGES_NODE.md
index 401a913941888feea13dff00d16a06d7cfa9b65a..3fb9414c40eac2bd9c0726c1ed78c03ac3a0df86 100644
--- a/etherlink/CHANGES_NODE.md
+++ b/etherlink/CHANGES_NODE.md
@@ -33,6 +33,13 @@ you start using them, you probably want to use `octez-evm-node check config
 - The event for the rpc mode when forwarding transaction was
   incorrectly named "forwarding_error`. It's now renamed
   "forward_transaction".(!17910)
+- The daily logs of the experimental RPC node are written in a
+  different directory prefixed by "rpc-<port>", and not in the same
+  log directory as the main node. Since V0.23 the daily log of the rpc
+  node was written in the same directory, because how dailylogs works
+  the log of the main node "dailylog-<date>.log" were deleted. If you
+  used an rpc EVM node v0.22 or later, please delete files prefixed
+  with "rpc-<port>-" from "<evm-node-datadir>/dailylogs/". (!17923)
 
 ## Version 0.24 (2025-04-30)
 
diff --git a/etherlink/bin_node/main.ml b/etherlink/bin_node/main.ml
index cd7ddf218539b0f1a3266de986de3e492062fb23..8ef6a2ca2f410ba2e0d7a89ee371ae65bd5d6b9e 100644
--- a/etherlink/bin_node/main.ml
+++ b/etherlink/bin_node/main.ml
@@ -889,7 +889,7 @@ let websocket_checks config =
       Internal_event.Simple.emit Event.buggy_dream_websocket () |> Lwt_result.ok
   | _ -> Lwt_result_syntax.return_unit
 
-let make_event_config ~verbosity ?daily_logs_path ?daily_log_basename () =
+let make_event_config ~verbosity ?daily_logs_path () =
   let open Tezos_event_logging.Internal_event in
   let open Tezos_base_unix.Internal_event_unix in
   let open Tezos_base.Internal_event_config in
@@ -911,9 +911,7 @@ let make_event_config ~verbosity ?daily_logs_path ?daily_log_basename () =
           ("rpc_server", Some Fatal);
         ]
       in
-      let daily_log_file =
-        Option.value ~default:"daily" daily_log_basename ^ ".log"
-      in
+      let daily_log_file = "daily.log" in
       let uri =
         make_config_uri
           ~create_dirs:true
@@ -931,19 +929,17 @@ let make_event_config ~verbosity ?daily_logs_path ?daily_log_basename () =
 let init_logs ~daily_logs ?rpc_mode_port ~data_dir configuration =
   let open Tezos_base_unix.Internal_event_unix in
   let daily_logs_path =
-    if daily_logs then Some Filename.Infix.(data_dir // "daily_logs") else None
-  in
-  let daily_log_basename =
-    Option.map
-      (fun port -> "rpc-" ^ string_of_int port ^ "-daily")
-      rpc_mode_port
+    if daily_logs then
+      match rpc_mode_port with
+      | Some port ->
+          Some
+            Filename.Infix.(
+              data_dir // ("daily_logs_rpc_" ^ string_of_int port))
+      | None -> Some Filename.Infix.(data_dir // "daily_logs")
+    else None
   in
   let config =
-    make_event_config
-      ~verbosity:configuration.verbose
-      ?daily_logs_path
-      ?daily_log_basename
-      ()
+    make_event_config ~verbosity:configuration.verbose ?daily_logs_path ()
   in
   init ~config ()