diff -ur a/files/openvpn-2.1.init b/files/openvpn-2.1.init
--- a/files/openvpn-2.1.init	2017-03-17 14:56:14.000000000 +0100
+++ b/files/openvpn-2.1.init	2017-04-04 10:31:59.619984743 +0200
@@ -5,9 +5,9 @@
 VPNDIR=${VPNDIR:-/etc/openvpn}
 VPN=${SVCNAME#*.}
 if [ -n "${VPN}" ] && [ ${SVCNAME} != "openvpn" ]; then
-	VPNPID="/var/run/openvpn.${VPN}.pid"
+	VPNPID="/run/openvpn/openvpn.${VPN}.pid"
 else
-	VPNPID="/var/run/openvpn.pid"
+	VPNPID="/run/openvpn/openvpn.pid"
 fi
 VPNCONF="${VPNDIR}/${VPN}.conf"
 
@@ -106,6 +106,11 @@
 		grep -q "^[ 	]*group[ 	].*" "${VPNCONF}" || args="${args} --group openvpn"
 	fi
 
+	local VPNUSR=`sed -n 's/^[ 	]*user[ 	]\(.*\)/\1/p' "${VPNCONF}"`
+	local VPNGRP=`sed -n 's/^[ 	]*group[ 	]\(.*\)/\1/p' "${VPNCONF}"`
+
+	checkpath -d -o "${VPNUSR:-openvpn}":"${VPNGRP:-openvpn}" -m 0750 "${VPNPID%/*}"
+
 	# Ensure that our scripts get the PEER_DNS variable
 	[ -n "${PEER_DNS}" ] && args="${args} --setenv PEER_DNS ${PEER_DNS}"