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The Heartbleed bug, a newly discovered security vulnerability that puts users’ passwords at many popular Web sites at risk, has upended the Web since it was disclosed earlier this week. It’s an extremely serious issue, and as such, there’s a lot of confusion about the bug and its implications as you use the Internet.

Source: Heartbleed bug: What you need to know (FAQ) – CNET

# service vsftpd start
vsftpd start/pre-start, process 19503

# ftp localhost
ftp: connect: Connection refused
ftp>

# tail syslog
Apr 3 19:09:13 posix1c kernel: [5432924.750678] init: vsftpd main process (19514) terminated with status 1
Apr 3 19:09:13 posix1c kernel: [5432924.750692] init: vsftpd main process ended, respawning
Apr 3 19:09:13 posix1c kernel: [5432924.753473] init: vsftpd main process (19517) terminated with status 1
Apr 3 19:09:13 posix1c kernel: [5432924.753489] init: vsftpd main process ended, respawning
Apr 3 19:09:13 posix1c kernel: [5432924.756226] init: vsftpd main process (19520) terminated with status 1
Apr 3 19:09:13 posix1c kernel: [5432924.756240] init: vsftpd main process ended, respawning
Apr 3 19:09:13 posix1c kernel: [5432924.758928] init: vsftpd main process (19523) terminated with status 1
Apr 3 19:09:13 posix1c kernel: [5432924.758942] init: vsftpd main process ended, respawning
Apr 3 19:09:13 posix1c kernel: [5432924.761728] init: vsftpd main process (19526) terminated with status 1
Apr 3 19:09:13 posix1c kernel: [5432924.761743] init: vsftpd respawning too fast, stopped

# vsftpd
500 OOPS: unrecognised variable in config file: allow_writeable_chroot

# grep allow_writeable_chroot /etc/vsftpd.conf
allow_writeable_chroot=YES

Comment out:
# grep allow_writeable_chroot /etc/vsftpd.conf
#allow_writeable_chroot=YES

# service vsftpd start
vsftpd start/running, process 19652

Service stays up:
# ftp localhost
Connected to localhost.
220 (vsFTPd 2.3.5)
Name (localhost:user):