Permissions Issue starting Bind 9.3.1

[Jason Williard]

I am using Bind 9.3.1 on RedHat Enterprise 4 which I installed using the
RPMs available by RedHat.  While it appears to load the zones properly, it
is unable to start completely due to permissions issues with the named.ca
and configuration file.  Below are the log entries:

Dec 13 18:11:57 ds01 named[1126]: starting BIND 9.3.1 -u named
Dec 13 18:11:57 ds01 named[1126]: found 1 CPU, using 1 worker thread
Dec 13 18:11:57 ds01 named[1126]: loading configuration from
'/etc/named.conf'
Dec 13 18:11:57 ds01 named[1126]: listening on IPv4 interface lo,
127.0.0.1#53
Dec 13 18:11:57 ds01 named[1126]: listening on IPv4 interface eth0,
67.x.x.x#53
Dec 13 18:11:57 ds01 named[1126]: listening on IPv4 interface eth1,
10.x.x.x#53
Dec 13 18:11:57 ds01 kernel: audit(1134519117.077:0): avc:  denied  { read }
for  pid=1127 exe=/usr/sbin/named name=named.ca dev=sda5 ino=8717074
scontext=root:system_r:named_t tcontext=root:object_r:var_t tclass=file
Dec 13 18:11:57 ds01 named[1126]: could not configure root hints from
'named.ca': permission denied
Dec 13 18:11:57 ds01 named[1126]: loading configuration: permission denied
Dec 13 18:11:57 ds01 named[1126]: exiting (due to fatal error)
Dec 13 18:11:57 ds01 named: named startup failed


As far as I can see, the permissions are set properly.  Here are the
permissions for the two files mentioned in the log entries above:

-rw-r--r--   1 named named  2518 Jul 26 02:40 named.ca
-rw-r-----   1 root named   7761 Dec 13 18:11 named.conf


Any ideas as to what is causing this?  

Thank You,
Jason Williard