The capsicum patch can be used on vanilla 8.1-RELEASE sources. Just apply the patch and make sure you follow the build and install instructions below. cd /usr/src fetch http://people.freebsd.org/~niels/capsicum/capsicum-8.1-RELEASE-26-09-2010.diff patch -p1 < capsicum-8.1-RELEASE-26-09-2010.diff make buildworld make buildkernel KERNCONF=CAPABILITIES make installkernel KERNCONF=CAPABILITIES reboot cd /usr/src mergemaster -p make installworld reboot