Looking at your last output.
2011-09-20T18:32:37.322626-07:00 ip-184-168-86-185 rsyslogd: [origin software="rsyslogd" swVersion="3.22.1" x-pid="3127" x-info="http://www.rsyslog.com"] (re)start
2011-09-20T18:32:37.321006-07:00 ip-184-168-86-185 rsyslogd: WARNING: rsyslogd is running in compatibil...
Run "uptime" If it is more than a few minutes, the server didn't reboot. If this is a VPS of some sort, try to see if you can reboot it from your control panel.
meanwhile, since this is a chroot account, do ls -la on the directory /var/named-chroot/etc/
[root@ip-184-168-86-185 /]# ls -la on /var/named-chroot/etc/ ls: on: No such file or directory /var/named-chroot/etc/: total 48 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Sep 21 15:43 . drwxr-xr-x 6 root root 4096 Feb 1 2011 .. -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2819 May 6 02:53 localtime -rw-r--r-- 1 root named 5572 Sep 21 12:55 named-turbopanel.conf -rw-r----- 1 root named 1230 Dec 13 2010 named.caching-nameserver.conf -rw-r----- 1 root named 821 Feb 1 2011 named.conf -rw-r--r-- 1 root named 47 Feb 1 2011 named.conf.tpsave
[root@ip-184-168-86-185 var]# ls -la named-chroot total 24 drwxr-xr-x 6 root root 4096 Feb 1 2011 . drwxr-xr-x 22 root root 4096 Sep 21 14:39 .. -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1697 Feb 1 2011 README.TP drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Feb 1 2011 dev drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Sep 21 15:43 etc dr-xr-xr-x 98 root root 0 Sep 21 15:44 proc drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 Feb 1 2011 var
I am inclined to ask you to comment out the include line that points to that file, but if you have existing zone files in that file, that might be a bad idea.
Anyway, did you change the permissions and then restart?
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