NAME
services - service name data base
DESCRIPTION
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
"/" is used to separate the port and protocol
(e.g. "512/tcp").
A "#" 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.
FILES
/etc/services
SEE ALSO
getservent(3)
BUGS
A name server should be used instead of a static file.