Hello,
I'm writing on this post having the same problem with Ubuntu Hardy / Plesk 8.6 : open named.conf : permission denied
ls -alh /etc/named.conf
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 34 2008-09-22 22:34 /etc/named.conf -> /var/named/run-root/etc/named.conf
laurent@madonie:~$ ls -alh /var/named/run-root/etc/named.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4,4K 2008-09-25 20:34 /var/named/run-root/etc/named.conf
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Sep 26 11:05:16 madonie named[5704]: found 1 CPU, using 1 worker thread
Sep 26 11:05:16 madonie named[5704]: loading configuration from '/etc/named.conf'
Sep 26 11:05:16 madonie named[5704]: none:0: open: /etc/named.conf: permission denied
Sep 26 11:05:16 madonie named[5704]: loading configuration: permission denied
Sep 26 11:05:16 madonie named[5704]: exiting (due to fatal error)
Sep 26 11:05:16 madonie kernel: [ 918.919419] audit(1222419916.657:39): type=1503 operation="inode_permission" requested_mask="::r" denied_mask="::r" name="/var/named/run-root/etc/localtime" pid=5705 profile="/usr/sbin/named" namespace="default"
Sep 26 11:05:16 madonie kernel: [ 918.919480] audit(1222419916.657:40): type=1503 operation="inode_permission" requested_mask="::r" denied_mask="::r" name="/var/named/run-root/etc/named.conf" pid=5705 profile="/usr/sbin/named" namespace="default"
Sep 26 11:05:16 madonie kernel: [ 918.919510] audit(1222419916.657:41): type=1503 operation="inode_permission" requested_mask="::r" denied_mask="::r" name="/var/named/run-root/etc/localtime" pid=5705 profile="/usr/sbin/named" namespace="default"
Sep 26 11:05:16 madonie kernel: [ 918.919716] audit(1222419916.657:42): type=1503 operation="inode_permission" requested_mask="::r" denied_mask="::r" name="/var/named/run-root/etc/localtime" pid=5705 profile="/usr/sbin/named" namespace="default"
Sep 26 11:05:16 madonie kernel: [ 918.919743] audit(1222419916.657:43): type=1503 operation="inode_permission" requested_mask="::r" denied_mask="::r" name="/var/named/run-root/etc/localtime" pid=5705 profile="/usr/sbin/named" namespace="default"
thank you