On Jan 10, 2008 12:21 PM, James Courtier-Dutton <james.dutton@???> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I know hostnames have the following naming restrictions.
> Hostnames must be no longer than 22 characters in length. You can use
> a-z,0-9, and '-'. A hostname cannot have any spaces nor can it start
> with a '-'.
>
> Is there a similar restriction for the /etc/services file in Linux?
>From man services
The service-name should begin in the first column of the file, since
leading spaces are not stripped. service-names 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 sensible choice.
Regards,
--
Richard Brown
