| SERVICES(5) | File Formats Manual | SERVICES(5) |
services — service
name database
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 mark (‘#’) 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.
The services file format appeared in
4.2BSD.
A name server should be used instead of a static file. Lines in
/etc/services are limited to
BUFSIZ characters (currently 1024). Longer lines
will be ignored.
| May 31, 2007 | OpenBSD-5.5 |