Cron job for git pull

Question

I am using crontab to setup cronjob in order to pull from git, manually these commands work but from cronjob the seem not to:

• • • • • cd /var/www/project/ && git pull

How can that be fixed?

Answer 1

It's likely due to sudo permissions required on /var/.

Make a shell script cron_pull.sh anywhere and run it on cron.

In cron_pull.sh:

#!/bin/bash
cd /var/www/project
git pull

Run

sudo chmod +x cron_pull.sh

In sudo crontab -e:

* * * * * /path/to/cron_pull.sh