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SERVICES(5) File Formats 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 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. FILES /etc/services The current services file. /var/db/services.cdb The current services database. SEE ALSO getservent(3), services_mkdb(8) HISTORY The services file format appeared in 4.2BSD. BUGS A name server should be used instead of a static file. NetBSD 10.99 February 12, 2023 NetBSD 10.99