Description of problem:
If for whatever reason the server user changes (in my case it was rerunning the
the initial setup tool) the init script will report that the server fails to
start because it doesn't have permission to write the pid file.

My /var/run/dirsrv directory was owned by nobody:nobody and I had changed DS to
run as dirsrv.  I notice that the initscript in CVS has a little bit more logic
but not quite enough to fix this problem.

Maybe just something like:

Index: initscript.in
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvs/dirsec/adminserver/wrappers/initscript.in,v
retrieving revision 1.1
diff -p -u -8 -r1.1 initscript.in
--- initscript.in       15 Jun 2007 17:13:02 -0000      1.1
+++ initscript.in       3 Oct 2007 16:41:26 -0000
@@ -58,19 +58,17 @@ fix_pid_dir_ownership()
         dirowner=`ls -ld $piddir | awk '{print $3}'`
         dirgrp=`ls -ld $piddir | awk '{print $4}'`
         if [ "$owner" != "$dirowner" ]; then
             groups $owner | grep $dirgrp > /dev/null 2>&1
             rc=$?
             if [ $rc -eq 0 ]; then
                 chmod 770 $piddir
             else
-                echo_n "$piddir is not writable for $owner"
-                failure; echo
-                exit 1
+                chown $owner $piddir
             fi
         fi
     else
         mkdir -p $piddir
         owner=`grep \^nsslapd-localuser $1/dse.ldif | awk '{print $2}'`
         if [ -n "$owner" ] ; then
             chown $owner $piddir
             chmod 700 $piddir