Description of problem:

The startup init script for monit relies on local defined variables: rundir, pidfile, user, group and prog.

Monit is run by root by default. If someone wants to change the user and group used to run monit, the init script must be modified.

A better approach would be reading the contents from /etc/sysconfig/monit if this file exists after the definition of those variables, allowing the user to override their default values.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
5.14

How reproducible:
Reinstalling or updating the package will smash init script file, since it's not a configuration file.

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Change monit init script and adjust its files and directories permissions in order to successfully run it as a non-root user. Configure sudo as needed to allow monit to restart monitored services when needed.
2. Reinstall monit.
3. Open /etc/init.d/monit

Actual results:
User-made changes to the init script are lost, so changes to user and group running monit are not preserved.

Expected results:
It would be desirable if sysadmins could preserve some changes made to the behavior of the init script.

Additional info:
Please, consider modifying monit init script to include the following code after the definition of the aforementioned variables.

if [ -f /etc/sysconfig/monit ]; then
    . /etc/sysconfig/monit
fi