diff --git a/core/monit/.checksums b/core/monit/.checksums
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+++ b/core/monit/.checksums
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+6a582b26bcc1be69d565b98b2f183cfb  monit-5.27.0.tar.gz
+75931a3204d9f63944ace164516ff1f1  run
diff --git a/core/monit/.pkgfiles b/core/monit/.pkgfiles
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+drwxr-xr-x root/root    usr/
+drwxr-xr-x root/root    usr/bin/
+-rwxr-xr-x root/root    usr/bin/monit
+drwxr-xr-x root/root    usr/share/
+drwxr-xr-x root/root    usr/share/man/
+drwxr-xr-x root/root    usr/share/man/man1/
+-rw-r--r-- root/root    usr/share/man/man1/monit.1.gz
diff --git a/core/monit/run b/core/monit/run
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+#!/bin/sh
+
+exec monit -c /etc/monitrc -I
diff --git a/core/monit/spkgbuild b/core/monit/spkgbuild
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+# description	: Utility for monitoring daemons running on a Unix system
+# depends	: linux-pam zlib openssl
+
+name=monit
+version=5.27.0
+release=1
+source="http://mmonit.com/$name/dist/$name-$version.tar.gz
+	run"
+
+build() {
+	cd $name-$version
+
+	./configure --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc
+	make
+	make DESTDIR=$PKG install
+
+	install -D -m 0700 monitrc $PKG/etc/monitrc
+
+	# runit service
+        install -Dm755 $SRC/run $PKG/etc/sv/$name/run
+        ln -s /run/runit/supervise.$name $PKG/etc/sv/$name/supervise
+}