DNS problem

"Blessing Kamutande" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.redhat.release.enigma
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hie All
I am trying to setup a DNS server on my local intranet and I'm trying to  configure a DNS server using BIND 9.1.* also I have installed bind-utils and caching-nameserver.
Now when I start named I get the following message from /var/log/messages

Mar 11 23:47:31 blessing named[1240]: starting BIND 9.1.3
Mar 11 23:47:31 blessing named[1240]: using 1 CPU
Mar 11 23:47:31 blessing named[1242]: loading configuration from '/etc/named.conf'
Mar 11 23:47:31 blessing named[1242]: the default for the 'auth-nxdomain' option is now 'no'
Mar 11 23:47:31 blessing named[1242]: type 'inet' control channel has no 'keys' clause; control channel will be disabled
Mar 11 23:47:31 blessing named[1242]: no IPv6 interfaces found
Mar 11 23:47:31 blessing named[1242]: listening on IPv4 interface lo, 127.0.0.1#53
Mar 11 23:47:31 blessing named[1242]: no key statements for use by control channels
Mar 11 23:47:31 blessing named[1242]: couldn't open pid file '/var/run/named/named.pid': Permission denied
Mar 11 23:47:31 blessing named[1242]: exiting (due to early fatal error)
Mar 11 23:52:49 blessing named[1250]: starting BIND 9.1.3
Mar 11 23:52:49 blessing named[1250]: using 1 CPU
Mar 11 23:52:50 blessing named[1252]: loading configuration from '/etc/named.conf'
Mar 11 23:52:50 blessing named[1252]: /etc/named.conf:8: parse error near keys
Mar 11 23:52:50 blessing named[1252]: loading configuration: failure
Mar 11 23:52:50 blessing named[1252]: exiting (due to fatal error)

Below are my configuration files ( named.conf, kamutande.co.zw.zone,  68.168.192.in-addr.arpa.zone (NAMED.LOCAL) and named.rev )

NAMED.CONF
## named.conf - configuration for bind
#
# Generated automatically by bindconf, alchemist et al.
controls {
        inet 127.0.0.1 allow { localhost; } keys { rndckey; };
};
 
include "/etc/rndc.key";

options { 
	directory "/var/named/"; 	
};


zone  "." { 
	type hint; 
	file  "named.ca";
};


zone  "0.0.127.in-addr.arpa" { 
	type master; 
	file  "0.0.127.in-addr.arpa.zone"; 
};
zone  "68.168.192.in-addr.arpa" { 
	type master; 
	file  "68.168.192.in-addr.arpa.zone"; 
};


zone  "kamutande.co.zw" { 
	type master; 
	file  "kamutande.co.zw.zone"; 
};
zone  "gift.co.zw" { 
	type master; 
	file  "gift.co.zw.zone"; 
};
zone  "peace.co.zw" { 
	type master; 
	file  "peace.co.zw.zone"; 
};




kamutande.co.zw.zone file
$TTL 86400
@	IN	SOA	kamutande.co.zw.  root.kamutande.co.zw (
			7 ; serial
			28800 ; refresh
			7200 ; retry
			604800 ; expire	
			86400 ; ttl
			)


@	IN	NS	blessing.kamutande.co.zw

@	IN	MX	10	blessing.kamutande.co.zw.

blessing	IN	A	192.168.68.8
@	IN	A	192.168.68.8
localhost.	IN	A	127.0.0.1



68.168.192.in-addr.arpa.zone FILE

$TTL 86400
@	IN	SOA	blessing.kamutande.co.zw.	root.localhost (
			9 ; serial
			28800 ; refresh
			7200 ; retry
			604800 ; expire	
			86400 ; ttk
			)


@	IN	NS	blessing.kamutande.co.zw.

8	IN	PTR	blessing.kamutande.co.zw.


0.0.127.in-addr.arpa.zone FILE (named.rev)
$TTL 86400
@	IN	SOA	blessing.kamutande.co.zw.	root.localhost (
			4 ; serial
			28800 ; refresh
			7200 ; retry
			604800 ; expire	
			86400 ; ttk
			)


@	IN	NS	blessing.kamutande.co.zw.

1	IN	PTR	localhost.


Please help me. How do I correctly setup the 

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