diff --git a/src/daemon-command/script.ts b/src/daemon-command/script.ts
index 8f41934..5c69e3e 100644
--- a/src/daemon-command/script.ts
+++ b/src/daemon-command/script.ts
@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
 import { ChildProcess, execSync, spawn } from "child_process";
 import colors from "colors";
+import * as dotenv from "dotenv";
+import * as dotenvExpand from "dotenv-expand";
 import { Socket } from "net";
 import waitOn from "wait-on";
 
@@ -8,6 +10,10 @@ import { ScriptDefinition } from "../script-definition.type";
 const KEEP_LOG_LINES = 100;
 export type ScriptStatus = "started" | "stopping" | "stopped" | "waiting" | "backoff";
 
+const expandedEnv = { ...(process.env as Record<string, string>) };
+dotenv.config({ processEnv: expandedEnv });
+dotenvExpand.expand({ processEnv: expandedEnv });
+
 export class Script {
     scriptDefinition: ScriptDefinition;
     status: ScriptStatus = "stopped";
@@ -40,7 +46,7 @@ export class Script {
         const waitOn = Array.isArray(this.scriptDefinition.waitOn) ? this.scriptDefinition.waitOn : [this.scriptDefinition.waitOn];
         return waitOn.map((str) =>
             str.replace(/\$[a-z\d_]+/gi, function (match) {
-                const sub = process.env[match.substring(1)];
+                const sub = expandedEnv[match.substring(1)];
                 return sub || match;
             }),
         );
diff --git a/src/index.ts b/src/index.ts
index ba3f846..83213ea 100755
--- a/src/index.ts
+++ b/src/index.ts
@@ -1,8 +1,6 @@
 #!/usr/bin/env node
 
 import { Command, Option } from "commander";
-import * as dotenv from "dotenv";
-import * as dotenvExpand from "dotenv-expand";
 
 import { logs, restart, shutdown, start, status } from "./commands";
 import { startDaemon } from "./commands/start-daemon.command";
@@ -10,9 +8,6 @@ import { stop } from "./commands/stop.command";
 
 export { Config } from "./config.type";
 
-const env = dotenv.config();
-dotenvExpand.expand(env);
-
 const program = new Command();
 // eslint-disable-next-line @typescript-eslint/no-var-requires
 program.version(require("../package.json").version);