Hi, just some ideas ... I understand that your program behaves different when executed from a local shell or when started remotely. I had a similar problem once that was solved by setting the environment variable LANG=C because some localisations didn't work - but this is just a guess.

You could

• compare the environments (run set locally and when logged in via ssh)
• run strace perl yourprogram.pl arguments and see what is executed before segfault occurs

Not much, but maybe a starter...