Stopping Openfire, Kill usage incorrect.

Hello All,

             I have recently compiled openfire, after getting it running, when I try to stop it I notice it seems to be trying to use 'incorrect' synatx.

travis@mycooldomain:/opt/openfire/bin$ sudo ./openfirectl stop

Shutting down openfire: ./openfirectl: 148: kill: Usage: kill [-s sigspec | -signum | -sigspec] [pid | job]... or

kill -l [exitstatus]

          Upon looking inside the stop() script I have found it's attempted syntax to be

[ -f "$OPENFIRE_PIDFILE" ] && kill `cat $OPENFIRE_PIDFILE`

          Any ideas as to what could be going wrong? Is somehow $OPENFIRE_PIDFILE not being set properly? I would do more on my end but I know very little of this coding language.

EDIT

          Just some info the .pid vile IS being saved in /var/run

-rw-r--r-- 1 root       root          1 May 13 15:43 openfire.pid

          Openfire however is being ran as the default daemon user. Could this be the issue?