diff --git a/Procfile b/Procfile
deleted file mode 100644
index 5d8784f8d..000000000
--- a/Procfile
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-web: gunicorn manage:app
diff --git a/config.py b/config.py
index 6ef462962..abb5a8442 100644
--- a/config.py
+++ b/config.py
@@ -85,11 +85,25 @@ def init_app(cls, app):
         app.logger.addHandler(file_handler)
 
 
+class UnixConfig(ProductionConfig):
+    @classmethod
+    def init_app(cls, app):
+        ProductionConfig.init_app(app)
+
+        # log to syslog
+        import logging
+        from logging.handlers import SysLogHandler
+        syslog_handler = SysLogHandler()
+        syslog_handler.setLevel(logging.WARNING)
+        app.logger.addHandler(syslog_handler)
+
+
 config = {
     'development': DevelopmentConfig,
     'testing': TestingConfig,
     'production': ProductionConfig,
     'heroku': HerokuConfig,
+    'unix': UnixConfig,
 
     'default': DevelopmentConfig
 }
diff --git a/manage.py b/manage.py
index 8771a05c0..f049f6c7b 100755
--- a/manage.py
+++ b/manage.py
@@ -6,6 +6,13 @@
     COV = coverage.coverage(branch=True, include='app/*')
     COV.start()
 
+if os.path.exists('.env'):
+    print('Importing environment from .env...')
+    for line in open('.env'):
+        var = line.strip().split('=')
+        if len(var) == 2:
+            os.environ[var[0]] = var[1]
+
 from app import create_app, db
 from app.models import User, Follow, Role, Permission, Post, Comment
 from flask.ext.script import Manager, Shell
diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
deleted file mode 100644
index dd29476f5..000000000
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,4 +0,0 @@
--r requirements/prod.txt
-Flask-SSLify==0.1.4
-gunicorn==18.0
-psycopg2==2.5.1