A Command Line subapplication can invoke a script that executes another command or script in the background. If the background process writes to stdout or stderr, that output will be directed to a log file that remains open until the process ends normally or is terminated. This will cause the log file to be handled differently when RMS log files are cleaned via the cron job or hvlogclean.
When hvlogclean cleans up old log files, it moves them into a backup directory named according to the time RMS was last started. The open log file of the background process will be moved there, too. Because the background process continues to write into the open file, future output for the process will therefore be found in the backup directory, and not in /var/opt/reliant/log along with the rest of the RMS processes.
If the log file of the background process is removed while the process is still running (for example, either manually or by the 'hvlogclean -d' command), the log file will no longer be visible. However, the file will still exist, and the background process will continue to write into the now-invisible file until the process ends or is stopped.
