git post-receive hook not running

Question

I have a bare repo server-side, and I am able to successfully commit and push from my local machine. However, the post-receive hook is not running. Details:

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Answer 1

I had the same problem on a Centos 6 system, where it turned out that SELinux prevented hooks scripts from running. Turning httpd_git_script_t into a permissive domain helped here (since "sesearch -A -s httpd_git_script_t -p exec" yielded nothing, ie. no process running in the httpd_git_script_t domain was allowed exec permission):

semanage permissive -a httpd_git_script_t