git-daemon fatal error running with monit

hello git masters.

I am having a problem running git-daemon from within 'monit' (http://www.tildeslash.com/monit/index.php 
).  I can run git-daemon every time without error if I manually issue  
the command to run it in a terminal.  However, if I have monit execute  
the exact same command I get an error from git-daemon in syslog and  
the client request fails every time.  Running on Ubuntu 7.04.  Can you  
take a look?

Unfortunately the error info in the logs is minimal.  All details of  
my config and the error can be found here in this pastie:  http://git.pastebin.com/m20fab0a9

Thanks in advance.