README for monit POST-INSTALL Edit monitrc control file as you need (/usr/etc/monitrc) Also, monit can run and be controlled from init. If monit should crash, init will re-spawn a new monit process. To setup monit to run from init, you can use the 'set init' statement in monitrc and then edit your /etc/inittab as: # Run monit in standard run-levels mo:2345:respawn:/usr/bin/monit -Ic /usr/etc/monitrc