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thatguy
First off, I would not run the printstatus command from your script. This is a big security risk and most likely, the user your webserver uses is not allows sudo access (since it is implicitly defined by the admin).
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Now a cronjob running printstatus into a logfile would be better. check out the [http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=crontab&apropos=0&sektion=5&manpath=FreeBSD+4.3-RELEASE&format=html|man page for cron].. something like <code>0 0 * * * sudo /path/to/printstatus >> /path/to/logfile</code> should work ok.<p>Depending on the output of printstatus (got a sample?) you could read it in line by line and print out the html using the [CGI.pm].. also something like <br><code>#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;
use CGI;
my $query=new CGI();
print $query->start_html(-title=>'Printer Status');
open(LOG," /path/to/logfile") || die "Cannot open logfile!: $!\n";
while(<LOG>) {
print $query->br,"$_ ",br;
}
close(LOG);
exit;</code>
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