--- monit-5.9/monitrc	2014-10-27 17:33:09.741090635 +0200
+++ monit-5.9/monitrc	2014-10-27 17:35:35.171362348 +0200
@@ -51,7 +51,8 @@
 ## specified using a comma separator. If the first mail server fails, Monit 
 # will use the second mail server in the list and so on. By default Monit uses 
 # port 25 - it is possible to override this with the PORT option.
-#
+
+set mailserver localhost
 # set mailserver mail.bar.baz,               # primary mailserver
 #                backup.bar.baz port 10025,  # backup mailserver on port 10025
 #                localhost                   # fallback relay
@@ -108,9 +109,9 @@
 ## You can set alert recipients whom will receive alerts if/when a 
 ## service defined in this file has errors. Alerts may be restricted on 
 ## events by using a filter as in the second example below.
-#
-# set alert sysadm@foo.bar                       # receive all alerts
-#
+
+set alert root@localhost                        # receive all alerts
+
 ## Do not alert when Monit starts, stops or performs a user initiated action.
 ## This filter is recommended to avoid getting alerts for trivial cases.
 #
@@ -256,3 +257,2 @@
-#
-#  include /etc/monit.d/*
-#
+
+include /etc/monit/*.monitrc