named will not start

[Matthew Connor]

Hi all. My named daemon will not start and I do not understand why.
When I execute "/usr/sbin/named -u named", it simply returns to the
command prompt and named is not running. Only one line gets added to
/var/log/messages:

Aug 17 11:19:35 pegasus kernel: audit(1155827975.705:0): avc:  denied
{ read } for  pid=3155 exe=/usr/sbin/named name=passwd dev=sda1
ino=20483558 scontext=root:system_r:named_t
tcontext=root:object_r:var_log_t tclass=file

There results of "strace -f -qtvx -o tracedump.txt /usr/sbin/named -u
named" can be found here:

http://www.bonniedoone.com/trace.txt

Any ideas? Thank you!

Matthew Connor