@@ -27,11 +27,11 @@
 # turn off faststart, put monitor.db in MT_RUN_AREA_HOME/db
 # and set the dbdir to /var/tmp/$USER/mt_db to enable keeping
 # the raw db in /var/tmp/$USER
 #
 faststart  no
-monitordir #{getenv MT_RUN_AREA_HOME}/db
+monitordir #{scheme (conc *toppath*)}/db
 dbdir      /var/tmp/#{getenv USER}/mt_db
 
 # Set launchwait to no to use the more agressive code that does not wait for the launch to complete before proceeding
 # this may save a few milliseconds on launching tests
 # launchwait no