problem: monit unmonitor serviceName

[Josh Portner]

when I do an unmonitor command like:
monit unmonitor tomcat6

nothing gets printed out in the monit log, and after stopping the 
service monit will try to start it (still monitoring it)

if I try a service that doesn't exist, I get an error:
monit unmonitor blahblah
monit[6921]: monit: service 'blahblah' -- doesn't exist

If I do an unmonitor from m/monit, it works fine
monit[2864]: 'tomcat6' unmonitor action done

I'm thinking this might be because we are running monit from init as 
described in the FAQ.
http://mmonit.com/wiki/Monit/FAQ
If that is the case, is it possible to send monitor/unmonitor commands 
from the command line when monit is running from init?