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Diffstat (limited to 'synapse/config/_base.py')
| -rw-r--r-- | synapse/config/_base.py | 5 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/synapse/config/_base.py b/synapse/config/_base.py index 8ebd2eba4a..6870af10e8 100644 --- a/synapse/config/_base.py +++ b/synapse/config/_base.py @@ -36,7 +36,10 @@ class Config(object): if file_path is None: raise ConfigError( "Missing config for %s." - " Try running again with --generate-config" + " You must specify a path for the config file. You can " + "do this with the -c or --config-path option. " + "Adding --generate-config along with --server-name " + "<server name> will generate a config file at the given path." % (config_name,) ) if not os.path.exists(file_path): |