[monit] "monit: error connecting to the monit daemon"

[Julien Genestoux]

Hey,

This is driving my nuts.

I have installed the monit under my Ubuntu. Changed the syntax checked it :

monit -t

Control file syntax OK

started monit 

ps aux |grep monit

root      5052  0.0  0.2   4248   928 ?        S    Jul31   0:00 /usr/sbin/monit -d 180 -c /etc/monit/monitrc -s /var/lib/monit/monit.state

and yet, when I am trying to see the status (or start/stop) or anthing else, I get this error:

# monit summary

monit: error connecting to the monit daemon

I am really desperate here, and I don't even know where to look for errors.

Can you guys help?

Julien