Rotation of access_ssl_log.webstat can be done, but previous access_ssl_log.webstat is restored on next day

In a subscription /logs/access_ssl_log.webstat has grown to a large size where the nightly AWStats maintenance starts hanging. The only solution we could find was to remove the access_ssl_log.webstat file so that further processing by AWStats is done with a much smaller file. As AWStats stores processed statistics in a separate file, the .webstat log file could be removed (or rotated) without consequences.

So we rotated it. But on the next day, the original access_ssl_log.webstat file is...

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