[monit] Monit wont start/stop any processes

[Vaughan Magnusson]

Hi, I've got monit running on a linux vserver, installed in a custom  
location

    /home/user/bin/monit

which is the only suitable location according to the webhost  
providers. When I installed monit I used ./configure --prefix=/home/user


Monit itself runs, and sends me emails of it's activity, and the  
control file syntax is correct. However, monit cannot seem to start or  
stop anything - or even run the simplest of scripts. eg. As an  
experiment, I use 'monit stop all', to try to run a simple script  
(which simply adds the current time to a text file), with the stop  
directive configured as follows:

    stop = "/bin/bash /home/user/simple_script.sh"

This fails to 'stop' (and says so in the log), but I cant figure out  
why this is failing. Can anyone help with this?

Cheers,
Vaughan.