Looking at man pages of sefiles and restorecon , both mention that they initialize security context database ( extended attributes) on one or more filesystems. There are certainly differences between command line arguments, but can these programs be used interchangeably as far as extended attributes they assign to files? -Sam -- This message was distributed to subscribers of the selinux mailing list. If you no longer wish to subscribe, send mail to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the words "unsubscribe selinux" without quotes as the message.