Why can't my post-receive hook run a virtualenv source command?

Question

I have a post-receive hook that is running as user 'git'. I have a virtualenv /python/ve//bin/activate that is readable by git. Running:

source /python/ve/<name>/bin/activate

works fine for a user in the git group.

When it runs as a post-receive hook after a push, I get the error "source: not found".

I'm not sure where else to look - any hints much appreciated.

Answer 1

This is something of a guess, since you haven't quoted your complete post-receive hook, but I suspect that you don't have a shebang line pointing to /bin/bash at the top. Your post-receive hook should begin:

#!/bin/bash

I suspect this because if I run a strict Bourne shell, like dash, I get the same error when trying to source anything with source.