I was getting permission errors (seen in /var/log/messages) in accessing these two directories within my chroot tree. I was pulling out what little hair I have, as the permissions were identical to those on my Centos 5.5 server. So I switched selinux into permissive mode and now I have /var/named/chroot/var/named/data/named.run and my ..../named/slave/ stubs. What is the selinux magic to allow bind to write here?