Re use of 'ulimit': my man page says it is deprecated in favour of 'setrlimit'; but then the version of linux I checked on is quite old (2.2 series kernel)! What happens to the process if it tries to exceed whatever limits are set? Tim -- Gllug mailing list - Gllug at gllug.org.uk http://lists.gllug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/gllug