NAME

services − Internet services and aliases

DESCRIPTION

The services file contains an entry for each service available through the DARPA Internet.  Each entry consists of a line of the form:

service-name   port/protocol   aliases

service-name This is the official Internet service name. 

port/protocol This field is composed of the port number and protocol through which the service is provided (for instance, 512/tcp). 

aliases This is a list of alternate names by which the service might be requested. 

Fields can be separated by any number of SPACE and/or TAB characters.  A ‘#’ (pound-sign) indicates the beginning of a comment; characters up to the end of the line are not interpreted 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), inetd.conf(4)

NOTES

A name server should be used instead of a static file. 

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