services(SFF)                   19 June 1992                   services(SFF)


 Name

    services - list of Internet services

 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 information:

       official service name
       port number
       protocol name
       aliases

    Items are separated by any number of blanks and/or tab characters.  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; subsequent characters up to
    the end of the line are not interpreted by the routines which search the
    file.

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

 Files

    /etc/services

 Notes

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

 See also

    getservent(SLIB), inetd(ADMN), inetd.conf(SFF)