Permissions trouble with Bind (Linux) Monitor

SAM is trying to parse (read) the contents of this file, but either the file does not exist or the user account you've specified in the monitor does not have read permissions to that file.

Don't these file permissions indicate that everyone, including the Orion account, have access to read the file?

-rw-r--r-- 1 named named      199 Sep 18 11:15 named.stats

This reads that the owner of the file has both read and write access, group has read, and others have read as well. So yes, the it would appear the file is read-only for all users.

That being the case do you know why the script would return the permission denied error when trying to read the file?

The permission denied error you are receiving is coming from the operating system, not the script itself. I would recommend running the script as 'root' to ensure it works and eliminate any permissions issues. Once you've verified the script works, you can then go through the script and ensure that all command line tools have the appropriate permissions for the user account you're trying to use for monitoring. It's my theory that the issue is with the 'rndc' command not having the execute permission for the user account you are using.