I've installed, configured and run OpenLDAP on my server. However, if I try to run it as a service using "service ldap start" it doesn't run. Also, the configuration file step returns "OK" as does the starting slapd step. I've narrowed it down to the fact that if slapd is run as user root things work just fine. I've already done "chown -R ldap:ldap /var/lib/ldap" but that doesn't seem to help. Here is the output I see when trying to run as user ldap:

slapd startup: initiated. bdb_db_open: dc=edwaa,dc=com bdb_db_open: dbenv_open(/var/lib/ldap) bdb(dc=edwaa,dc=com): Invalid log file: log.0000000001: No such file or directory bdb(dc=edwaa,dc=com): PANIC: No such file or directory bdb(dc=edwaa,dc=com): PANIC: DB_RUNRECOVERY: Fatal error, run database recovery bdb_db_open: dbenv_open failed: DB_RUNRECOVERY: Fatal error, run database recovery (-30978) backend_startup: bi_db_open(0) failed! (-30978) slapd shutdown: initiated ====> bdb_cache_release_all bdb(dc=edwaa,dc=com): DB_ENV->lock_id_free interface requires an environment configured for the locking subsystem slapd shutdown: freeing system resources. bdb(dc=edwaa,dc=com): txn_checkpoint interface requires an environment configured for the transaction subsystem bdb_db_destroy: txn_checkpoint failed: Invalid argument (22) slapd stopped. connections_destroy: nothing to destroy.

Any ideas would be much appreciated!