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).

Now a cronjob running printstatus into a logfile would be better. check out the man page for cron.. something like 0 0 * * * sudo /path/to/printstatus >> /path/to/logfile should work ok.

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 

#!/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;

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In reply to Re: Unix Perl and Html by thatguy
in thread Unix Perl and Html by meccaxlr

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