more graceful handling of missing pidfile, #1395

nodebb

@@ -33,13 +33,25 @@ case "$1" in
 		;;
 
 	stop)
+		pidExists;
+		if [ 0 -eq $? ];
+			then
+				echo "NodeBB is already stopped.";
+			else
 				echo "Stopping NodeBB. Goodbye!";
 				kill $(cat pidfile);
+		fi
 		;;
 
 	reload|restart)
+		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)