If you type 'limit' do you see a limit set on cputime?  This is with
(t)csh, with (ba)sh, I think its something like 'ulimt -a'.

-Dan


On Thu, 29 Jun 2000 AlexSorg@gmx.de wrote:

> > >from /usr/include/sys/signal.h
> > #define SIGXCPU         24      /* exceeded CPU time limit */
> > 
> > what sort of machine is this on?
> Sorry. Must've been headless X-)
> It's a single-processor sparc 20.
> #>uname -mpsv
> NetBSD NetBSD 1.4.1 (GENERIC) #1: Mon Aug  9 02:29:47 PDT 1999
> mrg@sun4690:/work/tmp/mrg/src/sys/arch/sparc/compile/GENERIC sparc sparc
>