SERVICES(5) BSD Programmer's Manual SERVICES(5) NNAAMMEE sseerrvviicceess - service name data base DDEESSCCRRIIPPTTIIOONN The sseerrvviicceess 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 _i_t_e_m; a ``/'' is used to separate the port and protocol (e.g. ``512/tcp''). A ``#'' indi- cates 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 de- limiter, newline, or comment character. FFIILLEESS /etc/services The sseerrvviicceess file resides in _/_e_t_c. SSEEEE AALLSSOO getservent(3) BBUUGGSS A name server should be used instead of a static file. HHIISSTTOORRYY The sseerrvviicceess file format appeared in 4.2BSD. 4.2 Berkeley Distribution June 5, 1993 1