After reinstalling psmon I typed 'which -a psmon' which only lists the following path.

/usr/bin/psmon

After running psmon as root I was able to get it to search for the conf file in /etc. Apparently when it's run as a normal user it looks in $HOME/etc/psmon.conf. So my only problem left is the 2 background daemons. I suppose this could be normal behavior. When you run "sudo psmon --daemon" does it give you the same message? Thanks for your help.

Just did a search for all psmon files on my system and this is what I found.

/tmp/psmon-1000-3446.pid
/var/run/psmon-0-2188.pid
/var/tmp/psmon.conf.swp
/usr/bin/psmon-config
/usr/bin/psmon
/usr/share/man/man1/psmon.1
/etc/psmon.conf

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