RH 7.3 named won't start

[Kevin O'Gorman]

I'm moving some things around and want to get named working on a
machine that's had RH 7.3 for a while now.  I cannot get named
to start, apparently because it's having permissions trouble
with /var/run, which is owned by root, and mode 755.  It's
trying to start as 'named -u named' and I'm guessing it's
changing to user named before writing the PID file, so it's
short of privileges.

How do I get this to work?

++ kevin