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Auckland City Mission - Latest News [Page 1]
Business delivering fresh produce to Aucklanders in need
Wednesday, 14 September 2016, 3:24 pm | Auckland City Mission
Penrose-based social enterprise Ooooby has provided fresh, local produce to the Auckland City Mission since its inception in 2010. More >>
ACM making homelessness a reality for everyone
Tuesday, 12 July 2016, 8:59 am | Auckland City Mission
Auckland City Mission making homelessness a reality for everyone The Auckland City Mission is making homelessness a reality for everyone – at least in a virtual sense. Today, the organisation is launching " Harsh Reality ," a 360 film that allows ... More >>
Auckland's rough sleeper population reaches record high
Tuesday, 7 June 2016, 2:34 pm | Auckland City Mission
Final figures have just been released following the 2016 Auckland City Street Count of Central Auckland's rough sleepers, with this year's total topping 200 for the first time since the Count started in 2004. More >>
Kicking them when they're down
Wednesday, 20 April 2016, 11:22 am | Auckland City Mission
The Auckland City Mission is urging the public to remember that there is a difference between "rough sleepers," "beggars" and "criminals." More >>
The record no one wants to break
Wednesday, 23 March 2016, 11:01 am | Auckland City Mission
The number of people coming to the Auckland City Mission for emergency food support is on the rise. More >>
Auckland City Mission to Host 2,000 to Christmas Lunch
Tuesday, 22 December 2015, 9:55 am | Auckland City Mission
• The Auckland City Mission's annual community Christmas lunch takes place on Friday, 25 December 2015, at the Viaduct Events Centre on the Waterfront More >>
Auckland City Mission Desperate for Financial Support
Tuesday, 15 December 2015, 10:08 am | Auckland City Mission
The Mission started distributing Christmas emergency food parcels and gifts on the 7th of December and up to 300 families came to their Hobson Street Drop-in Centre for assistance each day last week – a total of 1,500 families last week alone. More >>
Auckland City Mission Needs Your Support
Tuesday, 1 December 2015, 10:10 am | Auckland City Mission
Over the next three weeks, thousands of struggling Auckland families will come through the doors at the Auckland City Mission. The weeks leading up to Christmas are the Mission's busiest period, and the organisation needs your support in order to meet ... More >>
Auckland City Mission seeks volunteers for key events
Wednesday, 28 October 2015, 9:27 am | Auckland City Mission
Auckland City Mission is seeking volunteers to help with two key events this December. More >>
Flying Pigs give big to Auckland City Mission
Wednesday, 14 October 2015, 2:42 pm | Auckland City Mission
A charity-based team building program delivered by Corporate Challenge Events has provided the platform for more than 20 New Zealand high school students to help some of Auckland's most needy. Corporate Challenge Events delivered its 'Big Give' ... More >>
World Homeless Day in Auckland
Thursday, 8 October 2015, 10:22 am | Auckland City Mission
Statistics New Zealand defines homelessness as people living 'without shelter, people in temporary accommodation, people sharing accommodation and people in uninhabitable housing'. 'Rough sleeping' is the term used to describe the most challenging ... More >>
St Cuthberts students sharing a cuppa for 'ChariTea'
Thursday, 17 September 2015, 2:24 pm | Auckland City Mission
An entrepreneurial group of eight St Cuthberts College students have raised hundreds of dollars for the Auckland City Mission – simply by banking on kiwis' love of a good cup of tea. More >>
Auckland City Missioner Leaving After 22 Years
Saturday, 12 September 2015, 10:46 am | Auckland City Mission
Dame Diane Robertson, Auckland City Missioner, today announced her resignation after 22 years of service to Auckland, but said she would stay on until after Christmas to assist the Mission through its traditionally busy Christmas period. More >>
Auckland City Mission 'squatting' on unused homepages
Thursday, 6 August 2015, 12:05 pm | Auckland City Mission
The Auckland City Mission is "cyber-squatting" on the .nz home pages of dozens of New Zealand organisations this week in an effort to raise awareness around homelessness in the city. More >>
Join Auckland City Mission's Auckland Marathon team
Tuesday, 14 July 2015, 9:14 am | Auckland City Mission
Auckland City Mission is seeking motivated and passionate people to join its team for this year's Auckland Marathon, to help raise funds for Aucklanders living in desperate need. More >>
Photography that views Auckland through an unexpected lens
Wednesday, 10 June 2015, 9:52 am | Auckland City Mission
Photographer Jonathan Lyon has partnered with the Auckland City Mission to teach homeless people photography skills. The results of this incredible work will be on display as part of This Is My Voice , an exhibition at Studio One in Ponsonby running ... More >>
Community food bank partnerships a way forward
Friday, 1 May 2015, 11:29 am | Auckland City Mission
As part of its ongoing effort to improve the way in which its South Auckland food bank services reach those in desperate need, the Auckland City Mission has partnered with Manurewa's Te Whare Awhina Community House (located within the Clendon Park ... More >>
Mission Calling for Runners to Join Round the Bays Team
Friday, 16 January 2015, 3:05 pm | Auckland City Mission
10 places Gold Charity entries left • 30 runners have joined the Mission Team to date • $25,000 fundraising goal to provide essential services for Aucklanders living in desperate need. More >>
Mission, Marae celebrate first year of food bank partnership
Friday, 24 October 2014, 4:06 pm | Auckland City Mission
For the past year the Papakura Marae, through its partnership with the Auckland City Mission, has been able to provide Papakura families in desperate need with nutritionally balanced food parcels. The Mission has also supported the marae with equipment, expertise ... More >>
Dynamic Duo going the extra mile to support those in need
Thursday, 23 October 2014, 10:15 am | Auckland City Mission
Auckland City Missioner, Diane Robertson and Auckland City Mission Foundation Chair, Rob Campbell are going the extra mile in their support of Aucklanders in desperate need by signing on as part of the Mission's Auckland Marathon Team. Both Ms Robertson ... More >>


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Azure Linux Agent User Guide
Azure has two different deployment models for creating and working with resources: Resource Manager and classic. This article covers using both models, but Microsoft recommends that most new deployments use the Resource Manager model.
The Azure Linux Agent (/usr/sbin/waagent) manages interaction between a virtual machine and the Azure Fabric Controller. Please also see How to update the Azure Linux Agent for information about installing and updating the agent on a running VM.
The Azure Linux Agent is responsible for the following:
Please see the Azure Linux agent README for the latest version of this guide.
- Image Provisioning
- Create a user account
- Configure SSH authentication types
- Deploy SSH public keys and key pairs
- Sets the host name
- Publishes the host name to the platform DNS
- Reports SSH host key fingerprint to the platform
- Manages the resource disk
- Formats and mounts the resource disk
- Configures swap space
- Networking
- Manages routes to improve compatibility with platform DHCP servers
- Ensures the stability of the network interface name
- Kernel
- Configures virtual NUMA
- Consumes Hyper-V entropy for /dev/random
- Configures SCSI timeouts for the root device (which could be remote)
- Diagnostics
- Redirects the console to the serial port
- SCVMM Deployments
- Detects and bootstraps the VMM agent for Linux when running in a System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012 R2 environment
- VM Extension
- Inject component authored by Microsoft and Partners into Linux VM (IaaS) to enable software and configuration automation
- VM Extension reference implementation on https://github.com/Azure/azure-linux-extensions
The information flow from the platform to the agent occurs via two channels:
A boot-time attached DVD for IaaS deployments. This DVD includes an OVF-compliant configuration file that includes all provisioning information other than the actual SSH keypairs.
A TCP endpoint exposing a REST API used to obtain deployment and topology configuration.
Getting the Linux Agent
You can get the Latest Linux Agent directly from:
- The different Distribution providers endorsing Linux on Azure
- or from the GitHub Open Source Repository for the Azure Linux Agent
The following systems have been tested and are known to work with the Azure Linux Agent. Please note that this list may differ from the official list of supported systems on the Microsoft Azure Platform, as described here: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2805216
Supported Linux Distributions
- CoreOS
- CentOS 6.2+
- Debian 7.0+
- Ubuntu 12.04+
- openSUSE 12.3+
- Oracle Linux 6.4+
- Red Hat 6.7+
Other Supported Systems:
- FreeBSD 9+ (Azure Linux Agent v2.0.10+)
The Linux agent depends on some system packages in order to function properly:
- Python 2.6+
- Openssl 1.0+
- Openssh 5.3+
- Filesystem utilities: sfdisk, fdisk, mkfs, parted
- Password tools: chpasswd, sudo
- Text processing tools: sed, grep
- Network tools: ip-route
Installation using an RPM or a DEB package from your distribution's package repository is the preferred method of installing and upgrading the Azure Linux Agent.
If installing manually, the 'waagent' script should be copied to /usr/sbin/waagent and installed by running:
# sudo chmod 755 /usr/sbin/waagent # sudo /usr/sbin/waagent -install -verbose
The agent's log file is kept at /var/log/waagent.log.
Command Line Options
- verbose: Increase verbosity of specified command
- force: Skip interactive confirmation for some commands
help: Lists the supported commands and flags.
install: Manual installation of the agent
- Checks the system for required dependencies
- Creates the SysV init script (/etc/init.d/waagent), the logrotate configuration file (/etc/logrotate.d/waagent and configures the image to run the init script on boot
- Writes sample configuration file to /etc/waagent.conf
- Any existing configuration file is moved to /etc/waagent.conf.old
- Detects kernel version and applies the VNUMA workaround if necessary
- Moves udev rules that may interfere with networking (/lib/udev/rules.d/75-persistent-net-generator.rules, /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules) to /var/lib/waagent/
uninstall: Remove waagent and associated files
- Unregisters the init script from the system and deletes it
- Deletes the logrotate configuration and the waagent config file in /etc/waagent.conf
- Restores any moved udev rules that were moved during installation
- Automatic reverting of the VNUMA workaround is not supported, please edit the GRUB configuration files by hand to re-enable NUMA if required.
deprovision: Attempt to clean the system and make it suitable for re-provisioning. This operation deleted the following:
- All SSH host keys (if Provisioning.RegenerateSshHostKeyPair is 'y' in the configuration file)
- Nameserver configuration in /etc/resolv.conf
- Root password from /etc/shadow (if Provisioning.DeleteRootPassword is 'y' in the configuration file)
- Cached DHCP client leases
- Resets host name to localhost.localdomain
Warning: Deprovision does not guarantee that the image is cleared of all sensitive information and suitable for redistribution.
deprovision+user: Performs everything under -deprovision (above) and also deletes the last provisioned user account (obtained from /var/lib/waagent) and associated data. This parameter is when de-provisioning an image that was previously provisioning on Azure so it may be captured and re-used.
version: Displays the version of waagent
serialconsole: Configures GRUB to mark ttyS0 (the first serial port) as the boot console. This ensures that kernel bootup logs are sent to the serial port and made available for debugging.
daemon: Run waagent as a daemon to manage interaction with the platform. This argument is specified to waagent in the waagent init script.
A configuration file (/etc/waagent.conf) controls the actions of waagent. A sample configuration file is shown below:
# # Azure Linux Agent Configuration # Role.StateConsumer=None Role.ConfigurationConsumer=None Role.TopologyConsumer=None Provisioning.Enabled=y Provisioning.DeleteRootPassword=n Provisioning.RegenerateSshHostKeyPair=y Provisioning.SshHostKeyPairType=rsa Provisioning.MonitorHostName=y ResourceDisk.Format=y ResourceDisk.Filesystem=ext4 ResourceDisk.MountPoint=/mnt/resource ResourceDisk.EnableSwap=n ResourceDisk.SwapSizeMB=0 LBProbeResponder=y Logs.Verbose=n OS.RootDeviceScsiTimeout=300 OS.OpensslPath=None
The various configuration options are described in detail below. Configuration options are of three types; Boolean, String or Integer. The Boolean configuration options can be specified as "y" or "n". The special keyword "None" may be used for some string type configuration entries as detailed below.
Type: String
Default: None
If a path to an executable program is specified, it is invoked when waagent has provisioned the image and the "Ready" state is about to be reported to the Fabric. The argument specified to the program will be "Ready". The agent will not wait for the program to return before continuing.
Type: String
Default: None
If a path to an executable program is specified, the program is invoked when the Fabric indicates that a configuration file is available for the virtual machine. The path to the XML configuration file is provided as an argument to the executable. This may be invoked multiple times whenever the configuration file changes. The current path of this file is /var/lib/waagent/HostingEnvironmentConfig.xml.
Type: String
Default: None
If a path to an executable program is specified, the program is invoked when the Fabric indicates that a new network topology layout is available for the virtual machine.The path to the XML configuration file is provided as an argument to the executable. This may be invoked multiple times whenever the network topology changes (due to service healing for example). The current location of this file is /var/lib/waagent/SharedConfig.xml.
Type: Boolean
Default: y
This allows the user to enable or disable the provisioning functionality in the agent. Valid values are "y" or "n". If provisioning is disabled, SSH host and user keys in the image are preserved and any configuration specified in the Azure provisioning API is ignored.
Note: this parameter defaults to "n" on Ubuntu Cloud Images that use cloud-init for provisioning.
Type: Boolean
Default: n
If set, the root password in the /etc/shadow file is erased during the provisioning process.
Type: Boolean
Default: y
If set, all SSH host key pairs (ecdsa, dsa and rsa) are deleted during the provisioning process from /etc/ssh/. And a single fresh key pair is generated.
The encryption type for the fresh key pair is configurable by the Provisioning.SshHostKeyPairType entry. Please note that some distributions will re-create SSH key pairs for any missing encryption types when the SSH daemon is restarted (for example, upon a reboot).
Type: String
Default: rsa
This can be set to an encryption algorithm type that is supported by the SSH daemon on the virtual machine. The typically supported values are "rsa", "dsa" and "ecdsa". Note that "putty.exe" on Windows does not support "ecdsa". So, if you intend to use putty.exe on Windows to connect to a Linux deployment, please use "rsa" or "dsa".
Type: Boolean
Default: y
If set, waagent will monitor the Linux virtual machine for hostname changes (as returned by the "hostname" command) and automatically update the networking configuration in the image to reflect the change. In order to push the name change to the DNS servers, networking will be restarted in the virtual machine. This will result in brief loss of Internet connectivity.
Type: Boolean
Default: y
If set, the resource disk provided by the platform will be formatted and mounted by waagent if the filesystem type requested by the user in "ResourceDisk.Filesystem" is anything other than "ntfs". A single partition of type Linux (83) will be made available on the disk. Note that this partition will not be formatted if it can be successfully mounted.
Type: String
Default: ext4
This specifies the filesystem type for the resource disk. Supported values vary by Linux distribution. If the string is X, then mkfs.X should be present on the Linux image. SLES 11 images should typically use 'ext3'. FreeBSD images should use 'ufs2' here.
Type: String
Default: /mnt/resource
This specifies the path at which the resource disk is mounted. Note that the resource disk is a temporary disk, and might be emptied when the VM is deprovisioned.
Type: Boolean
Default: n
If set, a swap file (/swapfile) is created on the resource disk and added to the system swap space.
Type: Integer
Default: 0
The size of the swap file in megabytes.
Type: Boolean
Default: y
If set, waagent will respond to load balancer probes from the platform (if present).
Type: Boolean
Default: n
If set, log verbosity is boosted. Waagent logs to /var/log/waagent.log and leverages the system logrotate functionality to rotate logs.
Type: Integer
Default: 300
This configures the SCSI timeout in seconds on the OS disk and data drives. If not set, the system defaults are used.
Type: String
Default: None
This can be used to specify an alternate path for the openssl binary to use for cryptographic operations.
Ubuntu Cloud Images
Note that Ubuntu Cloud Images utilize cloud-init to perform many configuration tasks that would otherwise be managed by the Azure Linux Agent. Please note the following differences:
Provisioning.Enabled defaults to "n" on Ubuntu Cloud Images that use cloud-init to perform provisioning tasks.
The following configuration parameters have no effect on Ubuntu Cloud Images that use cloud-init to manage the resource disk and swap space:
- ResourceDisk.Format
- ResourceDisk.Filesystem
- ResourceDisk.MountPoint
- ResourceDisk.EnableSwap
- ResourceDisk.SwapSizeMB
Please see the following resources to configure the resource disk mount point and swap space on Ubuntu Cloud Images during provisioning:


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