named service error

in /var/log/messages, it shows

Jan 14 09:30:27 servername named[28880]: starting BIND 9.2.4
Jan 14 09:30:27 servername named[28880]: using 2 CPUs
Jan 14 09:30:27 servername named[28880]: loading configuration from '/etc/named.conf'
Jan 14 09:30:27 servername named[28880]: /etc/named.conf:3: change directory to '/var/named' failed: permission denied
Jan 14 09:30:27 servername named[28880]: /etc/named.conf:3: parsing failed
Jan 14 09:30:27 servername named[28880]: loading configuration: permission denied
Jan 14 09:30:27 servername named[28880]: exiting (due to fatal error)

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/etc/named.conf file is

// Default named.conf generated by install of bind-9.2.4-2
options {
directory "/var/named";
dump-file "/var/named/data/cache_dump.db";
statistics-file "/var/named/data/named_stats.txt";
};
include "/etc/rndc.key";

zone "servername.domain.com" { type master; file "/var/named/servername.domain.com.db"; };

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permission of /var/named is
drwxr-x--- 4 named named 4096 Jan 14 09:42 named

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Any idea why that error's happening?

thanks

 

 

 

 

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