diff --git a/salt/manager/tools/sbin/so-elasticagent-status b/salt/manager/tools/sbin/so-elasticagent-status
old mode 100644
new mode 100755
diff --git a/salt/manager/tools/sbin/so-repo-sync b/salt/manager/tools/sbin/so-repo-sync
old mode 100644
new mode 100755
diff --git a/salt/manager/tools/sbin/soup b/salt/manager/tools/sbin/soup
index 63df4eb25..0bd2f6b53 100755
--- a/salt/manager/tools/sbin/soup
+++ b/salt/manager/tools/sbin/soup
@@ -484,7 +484,7 @@ post_to_2.4.80() {
 
 repo_sync() {
   echo "Sync the local repo."
-  su socore -c '/usr/sbin/so-repo-sync' || fail "Unable to complete so-repo-sync."
+  su socore -c '$UPDATE_DIR/salt/manager/tools/sbin/so-repo-sync' || fail "Unable to complete so-repo-sync."
 }
 
 stop_salt_master() {