Having troubles getting VSFTPD running on Fedora 14. Here is what I have done so far, please let me know if I am missing something. When I try to connect through FTP it says connection time out.

Installed VSFTP with yum

yum install vsftpd

Edited config file

vi /etc/vsftpd/vsftpd.conf

Started service and made sure it would always start up

service vsftpd start
chkconfig vsftpd on

Added and configured a new user

/usr/sbin/useradd upload
/usr/bin/passwd upload
usermod -c "This user cannot login to a shell" -s /sbin/nologin upload

Added firewall rules

iptables -A INPUT -p tcp --dport 21 -j ACCEPT
iptables -A OUTPUT -p tcp --sport 20 -j ACCEPT
service iptables save
service iptables restart

Checked netstat (In reply to comment below)

tcp        0      0 0.0.0.0:21                  0.0.0.0:*                   LISTEN      23752/vsftpd