ultrix man page for services

services(5)							File Formats Manual						       services(5)

Name
       services - service name file

Description
       The file is an ASCII file that contains information regarding the known services available in the DARPA Internet.  For each service, a sin-
       gle line should be present with the following information:

       official service name
       port number
       protocol name
       aliases

       Each name is separated from the next by a new line.  Items are separated by any number of blanks or tab characters or both.  The port  num-
       ber  and  protocol  name are considered a single item; a backslash () is used to separate the port and protocol (for example, 512/tcp).  A
       number sign (#) indicates the beginning of a comment; characters up to the end of the line are not interpreted by routines that search  the
       file.

       Service names can contain any printable character other than a field delimiter, newline, or comment character.

       The  database  may be distributed in a network by a naming service, such as Yellow Pages or BIND/Hesiod.  See the Guide to the Yellow Pages
       Service or the chapter on Hesiod in the Guide to the BIND/Hesiod Service for setup information.

Files
See Also
       getservent(3n)
       Guide to the BIND/Hesiod Service
       Guide to the Yellow Pages Service

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