The
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.
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.
