1.\" $NetBSD: services.5,v 1.10 2009/05/13 12:58:34 wiz Exp $ 2.\" 3.\" Copyright (c) 1983, 1991, 1993 4.\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. 5.\" 6.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without 7.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions 8.\" are met: 9.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright 10.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. 11.\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright 12.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the 13.\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. 14.\" 3. Neither the name of the University nor the names of its contributors 15.\" may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software 16.\" without specific prior written permission. 17.\" 18.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE REGENTS AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS'' AND 19.\" ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE 20.\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE 21.\" ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE REGENTS OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE 22.\" FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL 23.\" DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS 24.\" OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) 25.\" HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT 26.\" LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY 27.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF 28.\" SUCH DAMAGE. 29.\" 30.\" @(#)services.5 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/5/93 31.\" 32.Dd June 19, 2007 33.Dt SERVICES 5 34.Os 35.Sh NAME 36.Nm services 37.Nd service name data base 38.Sh DESCRIPTION 39The 40.Nm services 41file contains information regarding 42the known services available in the 43.Tn DARPA 44Internet. 45For each service a single line should be present 46with the following information: 47.Bd -unfilled -offset indent 48official service name 49port number 50protocol name 51aliases 52.Ed 53.Pp 54Items are separated by any number of blanks and/or 55tab characters. 56The port number and protocol name are considered a single 57.Em item ; 58a slash 59.Pq Dq / 60is used to separate the port and protocol (e.g. 61.Dq 512/tcp ) . 62A hash 63.Pq Dq \&# 64indicates the beginning of 65a comment; subsequent characters up to the end of the line are 66not interpreted by the routines which search the file. 67.Pp 68Service names may contain any printable character other than a 69field delimiter, newline, or comment character. 70.Pp 71The database in 72.Pa /var/db/services.db 73needs to be updated with 74.Xr services_mkdb 8 75after changes to the services file have been applied. 76.Sh FILES 77.Bl -tag -width /etc/services -compact 78.It Pa /etc/services 79The 80.Nm services 81file resides in 82.Pa /etc . 83.El 84.Sh SEE ALSO 85.Xr getservent 3 , 86.Xr services_mkdb 8 87.Sh HISTORY 88The 89.Nm 90file format appeared in 91.Bx 4.2 . 92.Sh BUGS 93A name server should be used instead of a static file. 94