1.\" Copyright (c) 1983, 1991, 1993 2.\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. 3.\" 4.\" %sccs.include.redist.roff% 5.\" 6.\" @(#)services.5 8.1 (Berkeley) 06/05/93 7.\" 8.Dd 9.Dt SERVICES 5 10.Os BSD 4.2 11.Sh NAME 12.Nm services 13.Nd service name data base 14.Sh DESCRIPTION 15The 16.Nm services 17file contains information regarding 18the known services available in the 19.Tn DARPA 20Internet. 21For each service a single line should be present 22with the following information: 23.Bd -unfilled -offset indent 24official service name 25port number 26protocol name 27aliases 28.Ed 29.Pp 30Items are separated by any number of blanks and/or 31tab characters. The port number and protocol name 32are considered a single 33.Em item ; 34a ``/'' is used to 35separate the port and protocol (e.g. ``512/tcp''). 36A ``#'' indicates the beginning of 37a comment; subsequent characters up to the end of the line are 38not interpreted by the routines which search the file. 39.Pp 40Service names may contain any printable 41character other than a field delimiter, newline, 42or comment character. 43.Sh FILES 44.Bl -tag -width /etc/services -compact 45.It Pa /etc/services 46The 47.Nm services 48file resides in 49.Pa /etc . 50.El 51.Sh SEE ALSO 52.Xr getservent 3 53.Sh BUGS 54A name server should be used instead of a static file. 55.Sh HISTORY 56The 57.Nm 58file format appeared in 59.Bx 4.2 . 60