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 NB: opensshd requires the gitea program to be owned by root and not
 writable by group or others. The program must be specified by an absolute
 path.
+NB: Gitea must be running for this command to succeed.
 
 #### migrate
 Migrates the database. This command can be used to run other commands before starting the server for the first time.