SERVICES
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BSD 4.2
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; 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 delimiter, newline,
or comment character.
FILES
- /etc/services
-
The
services
file resides in
/etc
SEE ALSO
getservent(3)
BUGS
A name server should be used instead of a static file.
HISTORY
The
file format appeared in
BSD 4.2
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