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    <bug>
          <bug_id>30277</bug_id>
          
          <creation_ts>2018-08-11 22:48:27 +0000</creation_ts>
          <short_desc>Error message &quot;Software error:</short_desc>
          <delta_ts>2018-08-11 22:48:58 +0000</delta_ts>
          <reporter_accessible>1</reporter_accessible>
          <cclist_accessible>1</cclist_accessible>
          <classification_id>1</classification_id>
          <classification>Unclassified</classification>
          <product>Validator</product>
          <component>Website</component>
          <version>HEAD</version>
          <rep_platform>Macintosh</rep_platform>
          <op_sys>MacOS X</op_sys>
          <bug_status>NEW</bug_status>
          <resolution></resolution>
          
          
          <bug_file_loc>https://validator.w3.org/check</bug_file_loc>
          <status_whiteboard></status_whiteboard>
          <keywords></keywords>
          <priority>P2</priority>
          <bug_severity>normal</bug_severity>
          <target_milestone>---</target_milestone>
          
          
          <everconfirmed>1</everconfirmed>
          <reporter>xandrani</reporter>
          <assigned_to name="This bug has no owner yet - up for the taking">dave.null</assigned_to>
          
          
          <qa_contact name="qa-dev tracking">www-validator-cvs</qa_contact>

      

      

      

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          <long_desc isprivate="0" >
    <commentid>129317</commentid>
    <comment_count>0</comment_count>
    <who name="">xandrani</who>
    <bug_when>2018-08-11 22:48:27 +0000</bug_when>
    <thetext>The following error message was given when validating a piece of HTML:


Software error:

HTML::Template-&gt;new() : can&apos;t mkdir /var/tmp/wmvs-HEAD/a0 (file_cache =&gt; 1): Read-only file system at /usr/local/validator/httpd/cgi-bin/check line 859.

For help, please send mail to the webmaster ([no address given]), giving this error message and the time and date of the error.


I would suggest that, it&apos;s not good to tell people your directory structure (from a security perspective). It also seems that the email address is not set up. I&apos;d at least default to giving the link of the bug reporting URL instead. So, even if you DO fix the cause, I&apos;d recommend ensuring that this message doesn&apos;t give away any directory structures. It&apos;s hard for me not to report the directory structure, so you might want to redact that fairly soon? Entirely up to you.</thetext>
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