Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Length: 435 ...so it can be properly managed by systemctl etc. I have included a sample patch to implement this. NOTE: I changed the command line flags to match the other kerberos daemons : # ./kpropd -h Usage: ./kpropd [-r realm] [-s srvtab] [-dS] [-f slave_file] [-F kerberos_db_file ] [-u kdb5_util_pathname] [-x db_args]* [-p port] [-a acl_file] [-P pid_file] (standalone mode only) [-A admin_server] John