diff --git a/nifi-nar-bundles/nifi-framework-bundle/nifi-framework/nifi-resources/src/main/resources/bin/nifi.sh b/nifi-nar-bundles/nifi-framework-bundle/nifi-framework/nifi-resources/src/main/resources/bin/nifi.sh
index c6336f63c3..9a7d2a9402 100755
--- a/nifi-nar-bundles/nifi-framework-bundle/nifi-framework/nifi-resources/src/main/resources/bin/nifi.sh
+++ b/nifi-nar-bundles/nifi-framework-bundle/nifi-framework/nifi-resources/src/main/resources/bin/nifi.sh
@@ -290,12 +290,12 @@ run() {
 
     BOOTSTRAP_DIR_PARAMS="${BOOTSTRAP_LOG_PARAMS} ${BOOTSTRAP_PID_PARAMS} ${BOOTSTRAP_CONF_PARAMS}"
 
-    RUN_NIFI_CMD="cd "\""${NIFI_HOME}"\"" && ${sudo_cmd_prefix} "\""${JAVA}"\"" -cp "\""${BOOTSTRAP_CLASSPATH}"\"" -Xms12m -Xmx24m ${BOOTSTRAP_DIR_PARAMS}  org.apache.nifi.bootstrap.RunNiFi"
+    RUN_NIFI_CMD="cd "\""${NIFI_HOME}"\"" && exec ${sudo_cmd_prefix} "\""${JAVA}"\"" -cp "\""${BOOTSTRAP_CLASSPATH}"\"" -Xms12m -Xmx24m ${BOOTSTRAP_DIR_PARAMS}  org.apache.nifi.bootstrap.RunNiFi"
 
     if [ "$1" = "start" ]; then
         (eval $RUN_NIFI_CMD $@ &)
     else
-        (eval $RUN_NIFI_CMD $@)
+        eval $RUN_NIFI_CMD $@
     fi
     EXIT_STATUS=$?