services(4N)                                         services(4N)



     NAME
          services - service name database

     DESCRIPTION
          The services file contains information regarding  the  known
          services  available in the DARPA Internet.  For each service
          a single line should be present with the following  informa-
          tion:

               official service name
               port number
               protocol name
               aliases

          Items are separated by any number of blanks or  tab  charac-
          ters.   The  port  number and protocol name are considered a
          single item; a / is used to separate the port  and  protocol
          (for  example,  512/tcp).   A # indicates the beginning of a
          comment; characters up to the end of the line are not inter-
          preted by routines which search the file.

          Service names may contain any printable character other than
          a field delimiter, newline, or comment character.

     FILES
          /etc/services

     SEE ALSO
          getservent(3N).

     BUGS
          A name server should be used instead of a static file.  A
          binary indexed file format should be available for fast ac-
          cess.





















     April, 1990                                                     1