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 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, e.g., 512/tcp .  A # indicates the beginning of a comment; characters up to the end of the line are not interpreted by routines that search the file. 

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

FILES

/etc/services

SEE ALSO

getservent(3I). 

BUGS

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

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