SERVICES(4)							   SERVICES(4)

NAME    [Toc]    [Back]

     services -	service	name database

DESCRIPTION    [Toc]    [Back]

     The /etc/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:

	o official service name

	o port number

	o protocol name

	o aliases (optional)

     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; characters up to the	end of the
     line are not interpreted by routines which	search the file.

     Service names may contain any printable character other than a field
     delimiter,	newline, or comment character.	For example,

	  smtp	  25/tcp    mail

DETERMINING USAGE    [Toc]    [Back]

     It	is sometimes useful to be able to determine which processes are	using
     a particular port.	 This can be accomplished using	the fuser(1M) command.
     For example, in order to see which	processes are listening	on TCP port
     25, the command

	  fuser	25/tcp

     can be used.  Note	that fuser only	accepts	service	names in their numeric
     form; symbolic names such as ``smtp'' cannot be used.

FILES    [Toc]    [Back]

     /etc/services

     If	the NFS	option is installed and	NIS is running,	the getservent(3N)
     library routines only access this file if no entry	was found in the NIS
     database.

SEE ALSO    [Toc]    [Back]

     fuser(1M),	getservent(3N)







									Page 1






SERVICES(4)							   SERVICES(4)



BUGS
     A name server should be used instead of a static file.


									PPPPaaaaggggeeee 2222