Monit not starting after OS upgrade to Ubuntu 10.04 LTS

Iv recently upgraded the version of Ubuntu from 9.04 to 10.04LTS (through 9.10) and now Monit won’t start. Doing a sudo /etc/init.d/monit syntax says the syntax is ok. If I run the command sudo /etc/init.d/monit start I get Starting daemon monitor: monit. However if I do a ps -ef, then monit is not listed.

If I dig into the /etc/init.d/monit file then i can see that the executable that gets run is /etc/monit/monitrc. Running this with sudo gives an output of

/etc/monit/monitrc: 6: allow: not found
/etc/monit/monitrc: 7: SSL: not found
/etc/monit/monitrc: 8: PEMFILE: not found
/etc/monit/monitrc: 10: check: not found
/etc/monit/monitrc: 11: Syntax error: word unexpected (expecting ")")

My control file is below:

set mailserver localhost
set mail-format { from: me@mydomain.com }
set alert me@mydomain.comset httpd port 2812 and
allow myuser:mypassword
SSL ENABLE
PEMFILE  /etc/monit/monit.pemcheck system my.ip.he.re
    if loadavg (1min) > 4 then alert
    if loadavg (5min) > 2 then alert
    if memory usage > 60% then alert
    if cpu usage (user) > 70% then alert
    if cpu usage (system) > 70% then alert
    if cpu usage (wait) > 70% then alertinclude /etc/monit/conf.d/*.monitrc

I am not entirely sure, but perhaps there is one of those default files for monit that needs to be enabled in /etc/default ?

Since the monit file in /etc/init.d/ is shell script, you can run sudo bash -x /etc/init.d/monit start which will trace the script on your screen and might show you where you are going wrong.

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