[PLUG] Shell command needs an explanation

[Rich Shepard]

  I do not understand what the following line in a cron.daily script is
supposed to accomplish. The kill man page does not contain the options
listed and I cannot see the relationship to killing a cat of a file.

kill -USR1 `cat /var/run/thttpd.pid`

  Please explain this to me.

Thanks,

Rich

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