You can run vsftpd in standalone mode :

$ sudo vsftpd &

or through inetd, you have to change listen=YES to listen=NO in
vsftpd.conf and add one of the two folowing lines to your inetd.conf :

"ftp stream tcp nowait root /usr/local/sbin/vsftpd vsftpd"

or

"ftp stream tcp nowait root /usr/libexec/tcpd /usr/local/sbin/vsftpd"

The second line is to use vsftpd with tcp-wrappers, see tcpd(8).
