We have an odd problem on some of our RHEL Server 7.2 VM's:
Executing sudo chmod -R +rx doesn't change the read/directory flags for any of subdirectories. However, executing sudo chmod -R a+rx works just fine. e.g. for the java-agent folder below:
ls -la appdynamics/
drwxr-xr-x 4 appdynamics appdynamics 43 May 6 03:54 .
drwxr-xr-x. 8 root root 4096 May 5 16:56 ..
drwx------ 3 root root 30 May 5 16:56 java-agent
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 17 May 6 03:54 machine-agent
sudo chmod -R +rx appdynamics
ls -la appdynamics
drwxr-xr-x 4 appdynamics appdynamics 43 May 6 03:54 .
drwxr-xr-x. 8 root root 4096 May 5 16:56 ..
drwx------ 3 root root 30 May 5 16:56 java-agent
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 17 May 6 03:54 machine-agent
sudo chmod -R a+rx appdynamics
ls -la appdynamics
drwxr-xr-x 4 appdynamics appdynamics 43 May 6 03:54 .
drwxr-xr-x. 8 root root 4096 May 5 16:56 ..
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 30 May 5 16:56 java-agent
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 17 May 6 03:54 machine-agent
As I understand it chmod +rx defaults to a+rx - but just not on some of our boxes, and only on RHEL 7.2 (6.8 seems to be fine).
I've never seen this before and googling doesn't seem to give any hints. It's a problem because it breaks existing chef cookbooks, but only for a handful of machines.
