Hi I'm very new to this so please be patient while I learn how to work in this forum. i'm also kind of new to linux!!!
Well, my problem is that i've got vsftpd up and running once using xinetd, but now i've tryed doing it again in another server, and have the following 2 error:

1.when i type: /usr/sbin/vsftpd sends the following "500 OOPS vsftpd: not configured for standalone, must be started from inetd"
2.-when i type: /etc/xinetd.d/vsftpd sends the following "500 OOPS vsftpd: permission denied"

can you please help me step by step how to configure correctly the vsftpd server?

thank you very much!!!!!

Looks like you it configured to be run from inetd, if you want it to run as a stand alone server you need to turn an option on (that I can't remember off hand) in vsftpd.conf. For details read the man page for vsftpd.conf

may try this command to complate his workable:

service vsftpd start

Thanks people i've got it working, i was probably burned out yesterday and could'nt see the problem below:

# Set listen=YES if you want vsftpd to run standalone
listen=YES