The
services
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.amp; ``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.
