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.
BSD
June 19, 2007 BSD
