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.\" This manpage was made by merging two independently written manpages,
.\" one written by Martin Schulze (18 Oct 95), the other written by
.\" Thu Jan 11 12:14:41 1996 Austin Donnelly <and1000@cam.ac.uk>
.\" * Merged two services(5) manpages
.\"
-.TH SERVICES 5 2008-09-23 "Linux" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
+.TH SERVICES 5 2010-05-22 "Linux" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
.SH NAME
services \- Internet network services list
.SH DESCRIPTION
Therefore, most entries will
have two entries, even for TCP-only services.
-Port numbers below 1024 (so-called "low numbered" ports) can only be
-bound to by root (see
+Port numbers below 1024 (so-called "low numbered" ports) can be
+bound to only by root (see
.BR bind (2),
.BR tcp (7),
and
.TP
.I aliases
is an optional space or tab separated list of other names for this
-service (but see the BUGS section below).
+service.
Again, the names are case
sensitive.
.PP
can be any printable characters excluding space and tab.
However, a conservative choice of characters should be used to minimize
compatibility problems.
-E.g., a\-z, 0\-9, and hyphen (\-) would seem a
+For example, a\-z, 0\-9, and hyphen (\-) would seem a
sensible choice.
Lines not matching this format should not be present in the
.\" The following is not true as at glibc 2.8 (a line with a comma is
.\" ignored by getservent()); it's not clear if/when it was ever true.
-.\" As a backwards compatibility feature, the slash (/) between the
+.\" As a backward compatibility feature, the slash (/) between the
.\" .I port
.\" number and
.\" .I protocol
.B services
file might look like this:
.RS
+.ft CW
.nf
.sp
-.ta 3i
netstat 15/tcp
qotd 17/tcp quote
msp 18/tcp # message send protocol
# 22 \- unassigned
telnet 23/tcp
.fi
+.ft
.RE
.SH FILES
.TP
.\" and
.\" .BR getservbyport (3).
.\" However, this will also cause the next line to be mis-parsed.
-.SH "SEE ALSO"
+.SH SEE ALSO
.BR listen (2),
.BR endservent (3),
.BR getservbyname (3),
.BR protocols (5),
.BR inetd (8)
-Assigned Numbers RFC, most recently RFC\ 1700, (AKA STD0002)
+Assigned Numbers RFC, most recently RFC\ 1700, (AKA STD0002).
+.SH COLOPHON
+This page is part of release 3.79 of the Linux
+.I man-pages
+project.
+A description of the project,
+information about reporting bugs,
+and the latest version of this page,
+can be found at
+\%http://www.kernel.org/doc/man\-pages/.