scripts don't execute. Solved, buy why?

[Ronald Steele]

I just found the following line fai.log (which I didn’t see the other 20 times I gripped the log)

File uclient01/50-copy-file has unsupported type ASCII text.

So, I copied an exiting file to the one I wanted and changed the 
contents.  This works.  I’m stumped as to why.

Surely Linux doesn’t store text encoding as part of the file type.  Isn’t ASCII a subset of UTF-8?

I’d love an explanation.  

Thanks,
Ron

P.S.  I’m using GNU emacs as the editor which created the original, problem, file.



> On Jun 24, 2016, at 1:12 PM, Thomas Lange <lange at informatik.uni-koeln.de> wrote:
> 
>>>>>> On Fri, 24 Jun 2016 13:59:11 +0000, Ronald Steele <rsteele at adaptivemethods.com> said:
> 
>> The script’s file permissions are the same as the existing scripts.  The class name is defined in .../class/50-host-classes and appears in the log files in variables.log and fai.log (but never in shell.log).
> Check if you are using the correct config space.
> 
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> regards Thomas
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