From d95398f8081aab2e18f62ac7ad47aa2727a0512d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Julian Lam <julian@designcreateplay.com>
Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2014 12:09:42 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] more graceful handling of missing pidfile, #1395

---
 nodebb | 20 ++++++++++++++++----
 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/nodebb b/nodebb
index bf7b82e42e..e88744c081 100755
--- a/nodebb
+++ b/nodebb
@@ -33,13 +33,25 @@ case "$1" in
 		;;
 
 	stop)
-		echo "Stopping NodeBB. Goodbye!";
-		kill $(cat pidfile);
+		pidExists;
+		if [ 0 -eq $? ];
+			then
+				echo "NodeBB is already stopped.";
+			else
+				echo "Stopping NodeBB. Goodbye!";
+				kill $(cat pidfile);
+		fi
 		;;
 
 	reload|restart)
-		echo "Restarting NodeBB.";
-		kill -1 $(cat pidfile);
+		pidExists;
+		if [ 0 -eq $? ];
+			then
+				echo "NodeBB could not be restarted, as a running instance could not be found.";
+			else
+				echo "Restarting NodeBB.";
+				kill -1 $(cat pidfile);
+		fi
 		;;
 
 	status)