SERVICES(5)						      BSD File Formats Manual						       SERVICES(5)

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 slash
     (``/'') is used to separate the port and protocol (e.g.  ``512/tcp'').  A hash (``#'') indicates the beginning of a comment; subsequent char-
     acters 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.

     The database in /var/db/services.db needs to be updated with services_mkdb(8) after changes to the services file have been applied.

FILES

     /etc/services  The services file resides in /etc.

SEE ALSO

     getservent(3), services_mkdb(8)

HISTORY

     The services file format appeared in 4.2BSD.

BUGS

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

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								   June 19, 2007							       BSD