[CentOS] Restarting a Perl-script (socket daemon) from /etc/inittab

[m.roth at 5-cent.us]

Alexander Farber wrote:
> Hello fellow CentOS sysadmins,
>
> I run a small multiplayer card game
> with around 500 users at peak times.
>
> The client is in Flash and the server is in Perl.
<snip>
> My Perl daemon runs mostly stable, but
> approx. once a week it can crash with a
>
>     May 29 11:06:46 myhost kernel: pref.pl[3113]:
>     segfault at 00007fffa21e6fd8 rip 0000003cce274460
>     rsp 00007fffa21e6fd0 error 6
<snip>
Ok, here's the more significant question: why's it SEGV'ing? What's at
line 3113 that could segv?

         mark, was a programmer longer than I've been a sysadmin