I had to comment out the follow to make this work: 32 chmod 700 /usr/local/etc/monitrc 33 vi /etc/inittab 34 35 # Run monit in standard run-levels 36 mo:2345:respawn:/usr/local/bin/monit -Ic /usr/local/etc/monitrc 37 38 restart inittab 39 telinit q