NAME

services − service name data base

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 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. 

4.2 Berkeley Distribution  —  Revision 1.2 of 19/10/88