Errors starting rwhois

[bmannella at g3tech.net]

Does anyone have any ideas why i am getting the following error when trying to
start rwhois

Starting rhwoisd: execvp: Permission denied
/usr/local/rwhoisd/rwhoisd.conf: line 15: root-dir:: command not found
/usr/local/rwhoisd/rwhoisd.conf: line 21: bin-path:: command not found
/usr/local/rwhoisd/rwhoisd.conf: line 27: auth-area-file:: command not found
/usr/local/rwhoisd/rwhoisd.conf: line 33: directive-file:: command not found
/usr/local/rwhoisd/rwhoisd.conf: line 39: x-directive-file:: command not found
/usr/local/rwhoisd/rwhoisd.conf: line 51: max-hits-ceiling:: command not found
/usr/local/rwhoisd/rwhoisd.conf: line 57: register-spool:register_spool: command
not found
/usr/local/rwhoisd/rwhoisd.conf: line 69: local-host:: command not found
/usr/local/rwhoisd/rwhoisd.conf: line 74: local-port:: command not found
/usr/local/rwhoisd/rwhoisd.conf: line 82: security-allow:: command not found
/usr/local/rwhoisd/rwhoisd.conf: line 89: security-deny:: command not found
/usr/local/rwhoisd/rwhoisd.conf: line 95: deadman-time:: command not found
/usr/local/rwhoisd/rwhoisd.conf: line 102: server-type:: command not found
/usr/local/rwhoisd/rwhoisd.conf: line 106: chrooted:: command not found
/usr/local/rwhoisd/rwhoisd.conf: line 112: userid:: command not found
/usr/local/rwhoisd/rwhoisd.conf: line 118: pid-file:: command not found
/usr/local/rwhoisd/rwhoisd.conf: line 124: server-contact:: command not found
/usr/local/rwhoisd/rwhoisd.conf: line 130: use-syslog:: command not found
/usr/local/rwhoisd/rwhoisd.conf: line 141: default-log-file:: command not found
/usr/local/rwhoisd/rwhoisd.conf: line 172: max-children:: command not found