"chmod" fails but "touch" and "rm" can be successful on a file system with Symantec agent installed

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Issue

root user can't change the files' permission via chmod on a filesystem, however root user could touch/rm file on it.

/user/test#  touch test
/user/test#  chmod 755 test
chmod: changing permissions of `test': Permission denied
/user/test#  rm test
rm: remove regular empty file `test'? y
/user/test#

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
  • Symantec agent

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