diff --git a/bin/forever b/bin/forever
index 1a215765..c369ffce 100755
--- a/bin/forever
+++ b/bin/forever
@@ -16,40 +16,40 @@ require.paths.unshift(path.join(__dirname, '..', 'lib'));
 var forever = require('forever');
 
 var help = [
-    'usage: forever [start | stop | restart | stopall | list | cleanlogs] [options] SCRIPT [script options]',
-    '',
-    'options:',
-    '  start          start SCRIPT as a daemon',
-    '  stop           stop the daemon SCRIPT',
-    '  stopall        stop all running forever scripts',
-    '  restart        restart the daemon SCRIPT',
-    '  list           list all running forever scripts',
-    '  cleanlogs      [CAREFUL] Deletes all historical forever log files',
-    '',
-    '  -m MAX         Only run the specified script MAX times',
-    '  -l  LOGFILE    Logs the forever output to LOGFILE',
-    '  -a, --append   Append logs',
-    '  -o  OUTFILE    Logs stdout from child script to OUTFILE',
-    '  -e  ERRFILE    Logs stderr from child script to ERRFILE',
-    '  -d  SOURCEDIR  The source directory for which SCRIPT is relative to',
-    '  -p  PATH       Base path for all forever related files (pid files, etc.)',
-    '  -c  COMMAND    COMMAND to execute (defaults to node)',
-    '  --pidfile      The pid file',
-    '  -v, --verbose  Turns on the verbose messages from Forever',
-    '  -s, --silent   Run the child script silencing stdout and stderr',
-    '  -h, --help     You\'re staring at it',
-    '',
-    '[Long Running Process]',
-    '  The forever process will continue to run outputting log messages to the console.',
-    '  ex. forever -o out.log -e err.log my-script.js',
-    '',
-    '[Daemon]',
-    '  The forever process will run as a daemon which will make the target process start',
-    '  in the background. This is extremely useful for remote starting simple node.js scripts',
-    '  without using nohup. It is recommended to run start with -o -l, & -e.',
-    '  ex. forever start -l forever.log -o out.log -e err.log my-daemon.js',
-    '      forever stop my-daemon.js',
-    ''
+  'usage: forever [start | stop | restart | stopall | list | cleanlogs] [options] SCRIPT [script options]',
+  '',
+  'options:',
+  '  start          start SCRIPT as a daemon',
+  '  stop           stop the daemon SCRIPT',
+  '  stopall        stop all running forever scripts',
+  '  restart        restart the daemon SCRIPT',
+  '  list           list all running forever scripts',
+  '  cleanlogs      [CAREFUL] Deletes all historical forever log files',
+  '',
+  '  -m MAX         Only run the specified script MAX times',
+  '  -l  LOGFILE    Logs the forever output to LOGFILE',
+  '  -a, --append   Append logs',
+  '  -o  OUTFILE    Logs stdout from child script to OUTFILE',
+  '  -e  ERRFILE    Logs stderr from child script to ERRFILE',
+  '  -d  SOURCEDIR  The source directory for which SCRIPT is relative to',
+  '  -p  PATH       Base path for all forever related files (pid files, etc.)',
+  '  -c  COMMAND    COMMAND to execute (defaults to node)',
+  '  --pidfile      The pid file',
+  '  -v, --verbose  Turns on the verbose messages from Forever',
+  '  -s, --silent   Run the child script silencing stdout and stderr',
+  '  -h, --help     You\'re staring at it',
+  '',
+  '[Long Running Process]',
+  '  The forever process will continue to run outputting log messages to the console.',
+  '  ex. forever -o out.log -e err.log my-script.js',
+  '',
+  '[Daemon]',
+  '  The forever process will run as a daemon which will make the target process start',
+  '  in the background. This is extremely useful for remote starting simple node.js scripts',
+  '  without using nohup. It is recommended to run start with -o -l, & -e.',
+  '  ex. forever start -l forever.log -o out.log -e err.log my-daemon.js',
+  '      forever stop my-daemon.js',
+  ''
 ].join('\n');
 
 var mappings = {
diff --git a/lib/forever.js b/lib/forever.js
index 0e032cda..f26ff290 100644
--- a/lib/forever.js
+++ b/lib/forever.js
@@ -52,6 +52,17 @@ forever.load = function (options) {
     return;
   }
   
+  forever.config = new nconf.stores.File({ file: path.join(options.root, 'config.json') });
+  
+  //
+  // Try to load the forever `config.json` from 
+  // the specified location.
+  //
+  try {
+    forever.config.loadSync();
+  }
+  catch (ex) { }
+  
   forever.config.set('root', options.root);
   forever.config.set('pidPath', options.pidPath);
   
@@ -68,6 +79,15 @@ forever.load = function (options) {
 
   tryCreate(forever.config.get('root'));
   tryCreate(forever.config.get('pidPath'));
+  
+  //
+  // Attempt to save the new `config.json` for forever
+  //
+  try {
+    forever.config.saveSync();
+  }
+  catch (ex) { }
+  
   forever.initialized = true;
 };
 
diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index 6259399f..97827324 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -4,25 +4,43 @@
   "version": "0.4.2",
   "author": "Charlie Robbins <charlie.robbins@gmail.com>",
   "contributors": [
-    { "name": "Fedor Indutny", "email": "fedor.indutny@gmail.com" },
-    { "name": "James Halliday", "email": "mail@substack.net" }
+    {
+      "name": "Fedor Indutny",
+      "email": "fedor.indutny@gmail.com"
+    },
+    {
+      "name": "James Halliday",
+      "email": "mail@substack.net"
+    }
   ],
   "repository": {
     "type": "git",
-    "url": "http://github.com/indexzero/forever.git" 
+    "url": "http://github.com/indexzero/forever.git"
   },
-  "keywords": ["cli", "fault tolerant", "sysadmin", "tools"],
+  "keywords": [
+    "cli",
+    "fault tolerant",
+    "sysadmin",
+    "tools"
+  ],
   "dependencies": {
     "async": ">= 0.1.8",
-    "colors": ">= 0.3.0",
+    "colors": ">= 0.5.0",
     "daemon": ">= 0.3.0",
     "optimist": ">= 0.0.6",
     "timespan": ">= 2.0.0",
     "vows": ">= 0.5.2",
-    "winston": ">= 0.2.1"
+    "winston": ">= 0.2.7",
+    "nconf": ">= 0.1.7"
+  },
+  "bin": {
+    "forever": "./bin/forever"
   },
-  "bin": { "forever": "./bin/forever" },
   "main": "./lib/forever",
-  "scripts": { "test": "vows test/*-test.js --spec" },
-  "engines": { "node": ">= 0.4.0" }
-}
+  "scripts": {
+    "test": "vows test/*-test.js --spec"
+  },
+  "engines": {
+    "node": ">= 0.4.0"
+  }
+}
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