[Icecast] Monit and Icecast2

[Tim Baker]

Trying to monitor Icecast2 with Monit - but it won't create a PID file? I've checked the settings and tried various entries for pidfile path (/usr/share/, /usr/local/var/run and /var/run) in the XML, restarted etc but no pidfile appears?

Also found this monit script - is it correct? 

check process icecast2 with pidfile /var/run/icecast2/icecast.pid
    start program = "/etc/init.d/icecast2 start"
    stop program = "/etc/init.d/icecast2 stop"
    if failed port 8000 protocol HTTP
        request /
        with timeout 60 seconds
        then start

    if failed port 8000 protocol HTTP
        request /
        with timeout 60 seconds
        then alert