im not editing anything. im just trying to go to the named.conf to see what line is causing the error. but i cant go or cant see the named.conf because of the permission denied.
in terminal whm as root or through putty ssh
Hm - that's odd. What command do you use to show the named.conf file?
Also please try running ls -al /etc/named.conf and lsattr /etc/named.conf and post the output.