Sorry if i pollute the wrong list with my stuff. But SMACK does not seem to have it's own list and now lives in the kernel. Though this is userspace related... The smack howto mentions a not yet implemented smack option for start-stop-daemon. We mainly use startproc. So i made a patch which adds this functionality to startproc. It adds the option [-S LABEL] to startproc, which brings the called process up with /proc/self/attr/current = LABEL. I figured setting the security context should happen after things like pidfiles where written. But this is certainly up for discussion. This patch applies to killproc version 2.08. Please enjoy and comment. Regards Tilman Baumann -- Tilman Baumann Software Developer Collax GmbH . Boetzinger Strasse 60 . 79111 Freiburg . Germany p: +49 (0) 89-990157-0 f: +49 (0) 89-990157-11 Geschaeftsfuehrer: William K. Hite / Boris Nalbach AG Muenchen HRB 158898, Ust.-IdNr: DE 814464942