supress STDOUT from lp system command

[shazzbot]

How can I supress the stdout from the "lp" command which is being run through a perl-cgi script? If i run the command from the bash prompt (hardcoding filename rather than variable used below), it does as expected and redirects the standard output to /dev/null, *not* outputting the usual "request id is plothp-XX". When it is run from the perl-cgi script, I end up with "request id is plothp-XX" at the top of the webpage. How can i discard this output?
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this is the command I am using from within the perl script:

system ("lp -d plothp -o position=bottom-left -o PageSize=w1728h2160 $linuxPath 1>/dev/null");

my HTTP header is:

print "Content-type: text/html","\n\n";
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[PaulTEG]

search here for select and Stdout, it came up a while ago, also try the perl forum

HTH
--Paul

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and composer of the snipers anthem "From a distance ...

 

[icrf]

another option could be something like IPC::Open2

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