NAME
services —
service name data base
DESCRIPTION
Theservices file contains information regarding the
known services available in the 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.
If “db” is specified as source in the nsswitch.conf(5), /var/db/services.db is searched. The database in /var/db/services.db needs to be updated with services_mkdb(8) after changes to the services file have been applied.
NIS INTERACTION
Access to the NIS services.byname map can be enabled by adding a single ``+'' on a line by itself in the /etc/services file. This causes the contents of the NIS services map to be inserted at the location where the ``+'' appears.
FILES
- /etc/services
- The
servicesfile resides in /etc.
SEE ALSO
HISTORY
The services file format appeared in
4.2BSD.
BUGS
A name server should be used instead of a static file.