From 783481e644e16d48557ad74e4cf58f05a0f13635 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Julian Lam <julian@designcreateplay.com>
Date: Tue, 4 Nov 2014 17:39:13 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] Support for reloading nodebb via the nodebb executable

---
 loader.js |  1 +
 nodebb    | 13 ++++++++++++-
 2 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/loader.js b/loader.js
index 81be2fb572..998bd9bd5e 100644
--- a/loader.js
+++ b/loader.js
@@ -41,6 +41,7 @@ Loader.init = function(callback) {
 	}
 
 	process.on('SIGHUP', Loader.restart);
+	process.on('SIGUSR2', Loader.reload);
 	callback();
 };
 
diff --git a/nodebb b/nodebb
index 0db6fe2f38..a75c075b2f 100755
--- a/nodebb
+++ b/nodebb
@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ case "$1" in
 		fi
 		;;
 
-	reload|restart)
+	restart)
 		pidExists;
 		if [ 0 -eq $? ];
 			then
@@ -54,6 +54,17 @@ case "$1" in
 		fi
 		;;
 
+	reload)
+		pidExists;
+		if [ 0 -eq $? ];
+			then
+				echo "NodeBB could not be reloaded, as a running instance could not be found.";
+			else
+				echo "Reloading NodeBB.";
+				kill -12 $(cat pidfile);
+		fi
+		;;
+
 	status)
 		pidExists;
 		if [ 0 -eq $? ];