diff --git a/lib/monitor/run.js b/lib/monitor/run.js
index 4d9ca1ad..95c78234 100644
--- a/lib/monitor/run.js
+++ b/lib/monitor/run.js
@@ -33,11 +33,11 @@ function run(options) {
   var stdio = ['pipe', 'pipe', 'pipe'];
 
   if (config.options.stdout) {
-    stdio = ['pipe', process.stdout, 'pipe'];
+    stdio = ['pipe', process.stdout, process.stderr];
   }
 
   if (config.options.stdin === false) {
-    stdio = [process.stdin, process.stdout, 'pipe'];
+    stdio = [process.stdin, process.stdout, process.stderr];
   }
 
   var sh = 'sh';
@@ -99,6 +99,8 @@ function run(options) {
   if (shouldFork) {
     var forkArgs = cmd.args.slice(1);
     var env = utils.merge(options.execOptions.env, process.env);
+    stdio.pop();
+    stdio.push(process.stderr);
     stdio.push('ipc');
     child = fork(options.execOptions.script, forkArgs, {
       env: env,
@@ -110,7 +112,7 @@ function run(options) {
   } else {
     utils.log.detail('spawning');
     child = spawn.apply(null, spawnArgs);
-    debug('spawn', sh, shFlag, args)
+    debug('spawn', sh, shFlag, args);
   }
 
   if (config.required) {
@@ -139,20 +141,6 @@ function run(options) {
         bus.emit('message', message, sendHandle);
       });
     }
-  } else { // else if not required…
-
-    // this swallows a shell message that happens because we kill the sh -c
-    // more details here: https://git.io/Je6d0
-    child.stderr.on('data', s => {
-      s = s.toString();
-
-      if (child.__nodemonRestart) { // this flag is set right before the kill
-        utils.log.detail('stderr: ' + s);
-        return;
-      }
-
-      process.stderr.write(s);
-    });
   }
 
   bus.emit('start');
@@ -276,7 +264,6 @@ function run(options) {
       /* Now kill the entire subtree of processes belonging to nodemon */
       var oldPid = child.pid;
       if (child) {
-        child.__nodemonRestart = true;
         kill(child, config.signal, function () {
           // this seems to fix the 0.11.x issue with the "rs" restart command,
           // though I'm unsure why. it seems like more data is streamed in to
@@ -380,6 +367,8 @@ function kill(child, signal, callback) {
       // the sub processes need to be killed from smallest to largest
       debug('sending kill signal to ' + pids.join(', '));
 
+      child.kill(signal);
+
       pids.sort().forEach(pid => exec(`kill -${sig} ${pid}`, noop));
 
       waitForSubProcesses(child.pid, () => {
diff --git a/test/fork/run.test.js b/test/fork/run.test.js
index c572e562..04c2023c 100644
--- a/test/fork/run.test.js
+++ b/test/fork/run.test.js
@@ -5,19 +5,45 @@ var assert = require('assert'),
   run = utils.run;
 
 describe('nodemon fork', function () {
-  it('should start a fork', function (done) {
-    var p = run(appjs, {
+  it('should not show user-signal', done => {
+    var p = run({ exec: 'bin/nodemon.js',
+    args: [ '-V', '-x', 'echo running && sleep 20' ] }, {
       error: function (data) {
         p.send('quit');
+        if (data.trim().indexOf('signal') !== -1) {
+          return done(new Error('Signal incorrectly shown'));
+        }
+
         done(new Error(data));
+      },
+      output: function (data) {
+        if (data.trim().indexOf('signal') !== -1) {
+          done(new Error('Signal incorrectly shown'));
+        }
       }
     });
 
+    let started = false;
     p.on('message', function (event) {
       if (event.type === 'start') {
+        if (!started) {
+          p.send('restart');
+          started = true;
+        } else {
+          p.send('quit');
+          assert(true, 'nodemon started');
+          done();
+        }
+
+      }
+    });
+  });
+
+  it('should start a fork', function (done) {
+    var p = run(appjs, {
+      error: function (data) {
         p.send('quit');
-        assert(true, 'nodemon started');
-        done();
+        done(new Error(data));
       }
     });
   });