| 1 | .TH update-services 8 "29 April 2005" |
| 2 | .SH NAME |
| 3 | update-services \- update the /etc/services file |
| 4 | .SH SYNOPSIS |
| 5 | .B update-services |
| 6 | .IR [ file |
| 7 | \&...] |
| 8 | .SH DESCRIPTION |
| 9 | The |
| 10 | .B update-services |
| 11 | merges the contents of the files in |
| 12 | .B /etc/services.d |
| 13 | and any given on the command line, and writes the result to |
| 14 | .BR /etc/services . |
| 15 | .PP |
| 16 | To save Emacs users from going mental, it ignores files whose names end |
| 17 | in |
| 18 | .RB ` # ' |
| 19 | or |
| 20 | .RB ` ~ '. |
| 21 | .SH SEE ALSO |
| 22 | .BR merge-services (1). |
| 23 | .SH AUTHOR |
| 24 | Mark Wooding, <mdw@nsict.org> |