/etc/services guidelines in RHEL

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

  • /etc/services is distributed globally and as such it contains huge number of aliases.  We want to know if we can have

1) duplicate primary names
2) non-duplicate port/protocol
3) non-duplicate aliases

Environment

Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 4, 5, 6

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