diff --git a/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/cgi/man.cgi b/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/cgi/man.cgi
index b3e0823048..59fc3ba843 100755
--- a/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/cgi/man.cgi
+++ b/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/cgi/man.cgi
@@ -48,6 +48,8 @@ use constant HAS_FREEBSD_CGI_STYLE => eval { require "./cgi-style.pl"; };
 
 package main;
 
+alarm(10);
+
 $debug        = 2;
 $www{'title'} = 'FreeBSD Man Pages';
 $www{'home'}  = 'http://www.FreeBSD.org';