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 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)

HISTORY
The services file format appeared in 4.2BSD.

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