diff --git a/pkgs/tools/system/monit/default.nix b/pkgs/tools/system/monit/default.nix
index b8b2e2cbcdc..cbd9c20389c 100644
--- a/pkgs/tools/system/monit/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/tools/system/monit/default.nix
@@ -1,30 +1,22 @@
-a :  
-let 
-  s = import ./src-for-default.nix;
-  buildInputs = with a; [
-    bison flex openssl
-  ];
-in
-rec {
-  src = a.fetchUrlFromSrcInfo s;
+{stdenv, fetchurl, openssl, bison, flex, pam, usePAM ? stdenv.isLinux }:
 
-  inherit (s) name;
-  inherit buildInputs;
+stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
+  name = "monit-5.8";
+  
+  src = fetchurl {
+    url = "${meta.homepage}dist/${name}.tar.gz";
+    sha256 = "1xa7i29ma81jjxac0qc29wcxxvbv58n3jbwmllscamh1phz5f00c";
+  };
+
+  nativeBuildInputs = [ bison flex ];
+  buildInputs = [ openssl ] ++ stdenv.lib.optionals usePAM [ pam ];
+
+  configureFlags = stdenv.lib.optionals (! usePAM) [ "--without-pam" ];
 
-  /* doConfigure should be removed if not needed */
-  phaseNames = ["preConfigure" "doConfigure" "doMakeInstall"];
-  configureFlags = [
-    "--with-ssl-incl-dir=${a.openssl}/include"
-    "--with-ssl-lib-dir=${a.openssl}/lib"
-    ];
-  preConfigure = a.fullDepEntry (''
-    sed -e 's@/bin/@@' -i Makefile.in
-  '') ["doUnpack" "minInit"];
-      
   meta = {
+    homepage = http://mmonit.com/monit/;
     description = "Monitoring system";
-    maintainers = [
-      a.lib.maintainers.raskin
-    ];
+    license = stdenv.lib.licenses.agpl3;
+    maintainer = with stdenv.lib.maintainers; [ raskin wmertens ];
   };
 }
diff --git a/pkgs/tools/system/monit/src-for-default.nix b/pkgs/tools/system/monit/src-for-default.nix
deleted file mode 100644
index b74958ae19a..00000000000
--- a/pkgs/tools/system/monit/src-for-default.nix
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,9 +0,0 @@
-rec {
-   version="5.5";
-   name="monit-5.5";
-   hash="0lvw9llsnaj72dp6di74sc4sxpa4q3g23m28jwy4brphndhb0xl2";
-   url="http://mmonit.com/monit/download/../dist/monit-${version}.tar.gz";
-   advertisedUrl="http://mmonit.com/monit/download/../dist/monit-5.5.tar.gz";
-  
-  
-}
diff --git a/pkgs/tools/system/monit/src-info-for-default.nix b/pkgs/tools/system/monit/src-info-for-default.nix
deleted file mode 100644
index 691984a9fd5..00000000000
--- a/pkgs/tools/system/monit/src-info-for-default.nix
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,4 +0,0 @@
-{
-  downloadPage = "http://mmonit.com/monit/download/";
-  baseName = "monit";
-}
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index b92341445d0..b31db5f1bd9 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -1430,9 +1430,7 @@ let
 
   modemmanager = callPackage ../tools/networking/modemmanager {};
 
-  monit = builderDefsPackage ../tools/system/monit {
-    inherit openssl flex bison;
-  };
+  monit = callPackage ../tools/system/monit { };
 
   mosh = callPackage ../tools/networking/mosh {
     boost = boostHeaders;