NAME

servers − inet server data base

SYNOPSIS

/etc/servers

DESCRIPTION

The servers file contains the list of servers that inetd(8) operates. For each server a single line should be present with the following information:

name protocol location

If the server is rpc based, the name field should be rpc.  In this case, two additional fields are defined.  These two fields are the rpc program number, and either a version number or a range of version numbers. 

Fields are separated by any number of blanks or tab characters.  A # indicates the beginning of a comment; characters up to the end of the line are not interpreted by routines that search the file. 

The name of the server should be the official service name as contained in services(5). The protocol entry is either udp or tcp.  The server location is the full path name of the server program. 

EXAMPLE

Example servers file:

telnettcp/usr/etc/in.telnetd
shelltcp/etc/in.rshd
logintcp/etc/in.rlogind
exectcp/usr/etc/in.rexecd
syslogudp/usr/etc/in.syslog
comsatudp/usr/etc/in.comsat
talkudp/usr/etc/in.talkd
timetcp/usr/etc/in.timed
rpcudp/usr/etc/rpc.rstatd10000131-2
rpcudp/usr/etc/rpc.rusersd1000021
rpcudp/usr/etc/rpc.rwalld1000081
rpcudp/usr/etc/rpc.mountd1000051

FILES

/etc/servers

SEE ALSO

services(5), inetd(8)

BUGS

Because of a limitation on the number of open files, this file must contain fewer than NOFILE minus 3 lines (refer to <sys/param.h>). 

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