I am not sure using the system command but when I use backticks I use 2>filename to do this.

my $testpage = `/var/www/html/wvWare --config=/var/www/html/wvHtml.xml
+ 2>/dev/null /tmp/abc.tmp`;
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(I use this to convert word docs to HTML on my Linux box.)
2> takes care of the errors. Maybe it will work on the system() command.

--BigJoe

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