2.5 Admins is a podcast featuring two sysadmins called Allan Jude and Jim Salter, and a producer/editor who can just about configure a Samba share called Joe Ressington. Every two weeks we get together, talk about recent tech news, and answer some of your admin-related questions.
2.5 Admins 82: Oil, Gold, and Firstborn
Our concerns about Google’s latest acquisition, the technical implications of the sanctions on Russia, more on VPNs and filesystem replacements, and using Nagios with Sanoid.
Plugs
Controlling Resource Limits with RCTL in FreeBSD
News
Google makes second-largest acquisition ever: $5.4 billion for Mandiant
Internet backbone Cogent cuts Russia connectivity
Internet backbone provider Lumen quits Russia
Another Step Towards The Russian Splinternet
Russia faces IT crisis with just two months of data storage left
Cloudflare, Akamai defend decision to stay in Russia
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We were asked about using Nagios with Sanoid.
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