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@@ -7,6 +7,9 @@ config files, the superuser, and migrate the databases.
 If you additionally wish to use PostgreSQL, you’ll also need to run
 `python manage.py createsuperuser` and `python manage.py syncdb` to migrate that database.
 
+Use `/haiwen/seafile-server-latest/seahub/setenv.sh` to load the environment variables
+needed by `manage.py`
+
 Then you can run this image, and mount the configuration files.