Servers guru, Im with problems starting named

Paste relevant lines from a,

tail /var/log/syslog or
tail /var/log/messages

or whatever your main syslog file might be, which distribution?

Red hat 9.0

These lines?

Apr 20 06:07:43 server1 named[5707]: loading configuration: failure
Apr 20 06:07:43 server1 named[5707]: exiting (due to fatal error)
Apr 20 06:07:43 server1 named: named startup succeeded
Apr 20 06:14:27 server1 sshd(pam_unix)[3413]: session closed for user root
Apr 20 06:34:51 server1 sshd(pam_unix)[8745]: authentication failure; logname= u
id=0 euid=0 tty=NODEVssh ruser= rhost=66.118.128.121 user=root
Apr 20 06:34:55 server1 sshd(pam_unix)[8745]: session opened for user root by (u
id=0)
Apr 20 06:40:30 server1 sshd(pam_unix)[8745]: session closed for user root
Apr 20 06:48:41 server1 sshd(pam_unix)[9981]: authentication failure; logname= u
id=0 euid=0 tty=NODEVssh ruser= rhost=201.0.34.185 user=root
Apr 20 06:48:50 server1 sshd(pam_unix)[9981]: session opened for user root by (u
id=0)
Apr 20 06:48:54 server1 named: named reload failed

Apr 20 06:07:43 server1 named[5707]: loading configuration: failure
Apr 20 06:07:43 server1 named[5707]: exiting (due to fatal error)

maybe time to go through the config

How can I go trou the config? can you explain me please?

bump... urgent question...

most likely your
/etc/named.conf

is configured wrong.

yep, that was the problem... shit, just forgot a ";"

Thanks...