diff --git a/lib/forever/cli.js b/lib/forever/cli.js
index a3b7844c..2048a4f0 100644
--- a/lib/forever/cli.js
+++ b/lib/forever/cli.js
@@ -159,19 +159,8 @@ function checkColumn(name) {
 // `forever.startDaemon`
 //
 function getOptions(file) {
-  var options = {};
-  //
-  // First isolate options which should be passed to file
-  //
-  options.options = process.argv.splice(process.argv.indexOf(file) + 1);
-
-  //
-  // Now we have to force optimist to reparse command line options because
-  // we've removed some before.
-  //
-  app.config.system.loadArgv();
-
-  var o = [
+  var options = {},
+      o = [
         'pidFile', 'logFile', 'errFile', 'watch', 'minUptime', 'appendLog',
         'silent', 'max', 'command', 'path', 'spinSleepTime', 'sourceDir',
         'uid'