bsd man page for services

SERVICES(5)							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 ``/''
       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					    May 6, 1986 						       SERVICES(5)