Unable to coax hooks into working

Hello,

	After reading this page: http://book.git-scm.com/5_git_hooks.html on git hooks and doing a test implementation, I cannot seem to coax my git hooks into working.

	My understanding is that the hook is in the right location, in the git repository on the remote server, when doing a hook based on a post-commit update. I have down chown and chmod, the code executes, it just doesn't execute when I update the git repo and push. I have also tested this on the local machine with a different hook for the client also without success. 

	We're using debian testing and git 1.7.0.2 with the http-smart backend.

	What should I do to get hooks working?

Regards,

Jeremiah