named 9.3.3 start-script

Hello everyone, 

This is my first posting to the list, so I do not know yet if there's a lot of 
activity here or not ;) But any help would be appreciated.

I want to install bind-9.3.3-10.el5.i386.rpm shipped with RHEL5 (Kernel 
2.6.18-53).

The Installation is no problem, but when I try to start the named via 
/etc/init.d/named start, he fails and says:

Jul  7 16:39:20 host1 named: none:0: open: /etc/named.conf: permission denied

I googled around a little bit and found something about chowning the file to 
root:named and setting file permissions to 640. I even gave 777, but nothing 
works.

If I start named directly via /usr/sbin/named he comes up just fine, but 
because of clustering with linux-ha [heartbeat] I need to start it with the 
init.d-script.

What's wrong with that script? I'm not Linux-Guru enough to read trough that 
script and find the error alone :(

So please would anyone give me a hint or tell me what to do, to get BIND 
running.

Thanks in advance :)

Florian

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