inn died can someone help?

[Adam Lipson]

INN has stopped working.  Here are the symptoms that I can see from
looking in the log files, and while they say what is wrong I am not sure
how to fix this.  Can anyone help?
 
Thanks!
 
[root at listserver bin]# service innd status
innd dead but subsys locked
 
Jun  5 10:54:47 listserver innd: SERVER cant fopen /var/lib/news/history
Permission denied
Jun  5 11:00:37 listserver innd: SERVER cant fopen /var/lib/news/history
Permission denied
Jun  6 01:23:40 listserver innd: SERVER cant fopen /var/lib/news/history
Permission denied
Jun  6 01:30:25 listserver innd: SERVER cant fopen /var/lib/news/history
Permission denied
Jun  6 01:35:32 listserver innd: SERVER cant fopen /var/lib/news/history
Permission denied
Jun  6 01:35:48 listserver last message repeated 2 times