1 files changed, 5 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/script/public-inbox-init b/script/public-inbox-init
index 9f0bd1bd..5516e798 100755
--- a/script/public-inbox-init
+++ b/script/public-inbox-init
@@ -7,8 +7,10 @@ use strict;
  use warnings;
  my $usage = "public-inbox-init NAME REPO_DIR HTTP_URL ADDRESS [ADDRESS..]";
  use Getopt::Long qw/:config gnu_getopt no_ignore_case auto_abbrev/;
-use PublicInbox::Config;
-use PublicInbox::Inbox;
+use PublicInbox::Admin;
+PublicInbox::Admin::require_or_die('-base');
+require PublicInbox::Config;
+require PublicInbox::Inbox;
  use File::Temp qw/tempfile/;
  use File::Basename qw/dirname/;
  use File::Path qw/mkpath/;
@@ -24,6 +26,7 @@ my %opts = ( 'V|version=i' => \$version,
               'S|skip=i' => \$skip,
  );
  GetOptions(%opts) or usage();
+PublicInbox::Admin::indexlevel_ok_or_die($indexlevel) if defined $indexlevel;
  my $name = shift @ARGV or usage();
  my $mainrepo = shift @ARGV or usage();
  my $http_url = shift @ARGV or usage();