SERVICES(5)                          BSD                           SERVICES(5)



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 (for example "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.