"kill -HUP `pidof inetd`" fails

[Gilles]

On Wed, 6 Jul 2011 16:25:55 -0700, "Cathey, Jim" <jcathey at ciena.com>
wrote:
>Looks like whatever it was that tried to invoke
>the kill command didn't use a shell to parse it
>first.

Thanks for the info, but I don't know what that means :-/

I also tried "kill -HUP $(pidof inet)", but it fails too:
"sh: syntax error: unexpected )"

FWIW, I'm using Hush as the shell.