I'm having trouble setting up ftp service into my IIci with netBSD 1.4.2

ftp appears to be set up in inetd.conf along with telnet.
I can telnet in.

I've set up /etc/ftpusers and there's no /etc/nologin. I've tried 
both with /etc/ftpchroot and without

If I try ftpd -C jernigan and ftpd -C tomj, both return a status of 0.
If I ftpd -C root, I get a return status of 1.
jernigan belongs to the wheel group, tomj has no special privileges.

What am I doing wrong? I must be missing something obvious.

Thanks for any help.
Tom