diff --git a/recipes/_server_rhel.rb b/recipes/_server_rhel.rb
index 6d88c59a4..43bceb054 100644
--- a/recipes/_server_rhel.rb
+++ b/recipes/_server_rhel.rb
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@
   directory value do
     owner     'mysql'
     group     'mysql'
-    mode      '0775'
+    mode      '0755'
     action    :create
     recursive true
   end
@@ -66,6 +66,7 @@
 execute 'install-grants' do
   command cmd
   action :nothing
+  notifies :restart, 'service[mysql]', :immediately
 end
 
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