This file specifies well known ports which the services listed use.
It does not indicate what services are supposed to be running.
And it isn't necessarily accurate if the administrator chooses to specify
a different port for a given service.
J.
> The file /etc/services lists the services that are supposed to be running.
> So if someone tries to connect to port 110, look in /etc/services to see
> what service usually answers that request. But be aware that some (many?
> all?) services do things like negotiate other ports (e.g., ftp) so port
> 10182 could be busy with an ftp or telnet session.
>
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