1.\" $NetBSD: services.5,v 1.7 2001/09/11 01:01:58 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. All advertising materials mentioning features or use of this software 15.\" must display the following acknowledgement: 16.\" This product includes software developed by the University of 17.\" California, Berkeley and its contributors. 18.\" 4. Neither the name of the University nor the names of its contributors 19.\" may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software 20.\" without specific prior written permission. 21.\" 22.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE REGENTS AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS'' AND 23.\" ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE 24.\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE 25.\" ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE REGENTS OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE 26.\" FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL 27.\" DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS 28.\" OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) 29.\" HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT 30.\" LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY 31.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF 32.\" SUCH DAMAGE. 33.\" 34.\" @(#)services.5 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/5/93 35.\" 36.Dd June 5, 1993 37.Dt SERVICES 5 38.Os 39.Sh NAME 40.Nm services 41.Nd service name data base 42.Sh DESCRIPTION 43The 44.Nm services 45file contains information regarding 46the known services available in the 47.Tn DARPA 48Internet. 49For each service a single line should be present 50with the following information: 51.Bd -unfilled -offset indent 52official service name 53port number 54protocol name 55aliases 56.Ed 57.Pp 58Items are separated by any number of blanks and/or 59tab characters. The port number and protocol name 60are considered a single 61.Em item ; 62a slash 63.Pq Dq / 64is used to separate the port and protocol (e.g. 65.Dq 512/tcp ) . 66A hash 67.Pq Dq \&# 68indicates the beginning of 69a comment; subsequent characters up to the end of the line are 70not interpreted by the routines which search the file. 71.Pp 72Service names may contain any printable 73character other than a field delimiter, newline, 74or comment character. 75.Sh FILES 76.Bl -tag -width /etc/services -compact 77.It Pa /etc/services 78The 79.Nm services 80file resides in 81.Pa /etc . 82.El 83.Sh SEE ALSO 84.Xr getservent 3 85.Sh HISTORY 86The 87.Nm 88file format appeared in 89.Bx 4.2 . 90.Sh BUGS 91A name server should be used instead of a static file. 92