sm-notify (a part of nfs-utils), installed version 1.1.0.3-fc7
complains (in /var/log/messages) that it is running as root, and
suggests that I change the owner of /var/lib/nfs/sm, so that it can
drop its privileges to match those of the directories it should write into.

Unfortunately, fc7 does not create this directory; instead, it creates
  /var/lib/nfs/statd/sm  and /var/lib/nfs/statd/sm.bak, and sets the
owner of statd and its subdirectories to "rpcuser", which looks right.

Is this just a version mismatch, or a more serious "out-of-sync" problem
with the nfs-utils?  I have not investigated, but the documentation says that
rpc.statd writes into these directories, and sm-notify reads and updates the
contents.  Surely, they ought to both be working from the same data.

How reproducible:
  on every boot