SERVICES(5) | File Formats Manual | SERVICES(5) |
services
— service
name data base
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
(‘#
’) 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 database in /var/db/services.cdb needs to be updated with services_mkdb(8) after changes to the services file have been applied.
The services
file format appeared in
4.2BSD.
A name server should be used instead of a static file.
February 12, 2023 | NetBSD 10.99 |