title: Crontab forever start in production mode
body: <p>I'm running Ghost blog on a MEAN stack. I'm using forever to keep the blog alive after starting it. I've also setup crontab to launch the <code>forever start</code> command on server reboot.</p>
  
  <p>I can't work out how to get it to start in production mode with crontab.
  If I did this straight into the command line, I'd do this:</p>
  
  <pre><code>NODE_ENV=production forever start index.js
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>That works great, but the following line in my crontab ignores the production mode part and starts it in development mode:</p>
  
  <pre><code>@reboot NODE_ENV=production /usr/local/bin/forever start /path/to/blog/index.js
  </code></pre>