[gentoo-server] openldap init script vs slapd daemon

Hi everybody!

I just installed a ldap server, but no way to get the init script working, 
while the daemon works perfectly:

# /usr/lib/openldap/slapd -u ldap -g ldap

runs ok, but the script don't:

#!/sbin/runscript
# Copyright 1999-2004 Gentoo Foundation
# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
# $Header: /var/cvsroot/gentoo-x86/net-nds/openldap/files/slapd-initd2,v 1.1 
2010/04/11 15:14:48 jokey Exp $

depend() {
	need net
	before dbus hald avahi-daemon
	provide ldap
}

start() {
	ebegin "Starting ldap-server"
	eval start-stop-daemon --start --pidfile /var/run/openldap/slapd.pid --
exec /usr/lib/openldap/slapd -- -u ldap -g ldap "${OPTS}"
	eend $?
}

stop() {
	ebegin "Stopping ldap-server"
	start-stop-daemon --stop --signal 2 --quiet --pidfile 
/var/run/openldap/slapd.pid 
	eend $?
}

could anybody tell me where the (fatal) differences lie?

thanks,
Stefano