This is probably not the solution. But it will change the localtime line and remove the s/// one. I don't say its better but it might throw some light on what's happening. 
 my ($sec,$min,$hour,$mday,$mon,$year) = localtime();
 my $m = ('Jan','Feb','Mar','Apr','May','Jun','Jul','Aug','Sep','Oct',
+'Nov','Dec')[$mon].
   "-$mday-".substr($year,-2).sprintf(' %02d:%02d:%02d', $hour,$min,$s
+ec);
 $m.= " $Con{$fh}->{ip} <$Con{$fh}->{mailfrom}>" if $fh && $Con{$fh};
 $m.= " $_[0]\n";
 print $m unless $silent;
 print DEBUG  $m;

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Yes it is a strike at semi-random. What I guess may happen is that the problem now moves to a completely differet place. If so I suspect you may be looking at a weird memory leak kind of error. However I did get a very very weird crash the first time I ran your 2 lines in a CGI script - it broke the webserver! Needless to say this hasn't happened since.

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In reply to Re: still have a mysterious crash by dingus
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