From: rinpatch <rinpatch@sdf.org>
Date: Sun, 23 Jun 2019 00:05:02 +0000 (+0300)
Subject: Add a section on executing mix tasks
X-Git-Url: http://git.squeep.com/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=299cefa2bdbbde171501c5fa516e37b5e9733953;p=akkoma

Add a section on executing mix tasks
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diff --git a/docs/installation/releases_en.md b/docs/installation/releases_en.md
index 6c05f4cd9..b9ac1b955 100644
--- a/docs/installation/releases_en.md
+++ b/docs/installation/releases_en.md
@@ -236,7 +236,13 @@ chmod +x /etc/periodic/daily/renew-pleroma-cert
 # If everything worked this should output /etc/periodic/daily/renew-pleroma-cert
 run-parts --test /etc/periodic/daily
 ```
-### Running Mix tasks
+### Running mix tasks
+Throughout the wiki and guides there is a lot of references to mix tasks. Since `mix` is a build tool, you can't just call `mix pleroma.task`, instead you should call `pleroma_ctl` stripping pleroma/ecto namespace.
+
+So for example, if the task is `mix pleroma.user set admin --admin`, you should run it like this:
+```sh
+su pleroma -s $SHELL -lc "./bin/pleroma_ctl user set admin --admin"
+```
 ### Updating
 Generally, doing the following is enough:
 ```sh