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SERVICES(5)               NetBSD Programmer's Manual               SERVICES(5)


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 ``#'' 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.


FILES

     /etc/services  The services file resides in /etc.


SEE ALSO

     getservent(3)


BUGS

     A name server should be used instead of a static file.


HISTORY

     The services file format appeared in 4.2BSD.

NetBSD 1.5                       June 5, 1993                                1