ftpd under 4.8

[SPD]

Hello:

   I was running a very old release of FreeBSD on
a home server for years. I just upgraded to the
production release of 4.8 and found that ftp
connections into the server fail with a
connection refused message. sshd works for
virtual terminal sessions. A quick look through
various config files and online documentation
doesn't solve the problem. Is this a know issue
with 4.8? Does anyone know how to configured
the server to accept ftp connections?

Thanks,Steve