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Convert RedHat to CentOS And Save Money Today!

Thursday, July 25, 2019

Discussing how to convert RedHat to CentOS has been an increasingly common topic with IBM’s acquisition of RedHat. Many organizations are reviewing their RedHat agreements and asking themselves what they get from their RedHat licensing and support dollars. RHEL resellers are also concerned that their biggest competitor and RedHat reseller (IBM) is now in complete… Read more »

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Special: $100/month Single Server Maintenance & Monitoring

Tuesday, July 18, 2017

As A-Team Systems expands we’re striving to give even the smallest setups our expert systems administration care: We’re now offering a flat $100 per month special for single server maintenance and monitoring. This plan includes everything our standard maintenance and monitoring plans include such as covering all routine maintenance, support, monitoring, intrusion detection and malware… Read more »

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Disaster Planning & Overnight FedEx Added To Our Off-Site Backup Service

Thursday, February 9, 2017

A-Team Systems is excited to announce two excellent improvements to our off-site backup service! Not only does our service outperform Amazon S3 by over 4x, we now offer more than just backup storage and operations. These additions advance our off-site backup service into a full fledged disaster recovery system. Disaster Planning We now include full… Read more »

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FreeBSD 11.0 Deployment Soon!

Thursday, November 17, 2016

FreeBSD 11 was formally released last month and we’re very excited to start rolling it out to our clients in the coming weeks. FreeBSD 11.0 brings a host of new features and improvements including: Improved BHyve: BHyve is FreeBSD’s type-2 native hypervisor which boots virtually any FreeBSD and Linux version and now includes a native… Read more »

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Continuous Port Scanning and Mail Real-time Blackhole List Monitoring

Tuesday, May 17, 2016

A-Team Systems proudly announces another addition to its maintenance and monitoring plans: continuously scanning all of our client’s public-facing infrastructure for open network ports as well as being listed on mail RBLs (real-time blackhole lists). Server Scanning One off port scanning when a system is put into place is normal practice for systems and network… Read more »

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Adam Strohl

Thursday, November 8, 2018


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FreeBSD Jenkins ERROR: Failed to parse POMs

We recently ran into an issue where the version of Maven under FreeBSD wasn’t updated enough (ports/pkg was behind) for the version of Jenkins in ports/pkg. It produced an error like the following: [INFO] Installing /usr/local/jenkins/workspace/bdd_framework_test/pom.xml to /usr/local/jenkins/.m2/repository/Cucumber_Framework/BDD_SearchLock_Safelist_Final/0.0.1-SNAPSHOT/BDD_SearchLock_Safelist_Final-0.0.1-SNAPSHOT.pom [WARNING] Attempt to (de-)serialize anonymous class hudson.maven.reporters.MavenArtifactArchiver$2; see: https://jenkins.io/redirect/serialization-of-anonymous-classes/ java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:62) at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)… Read more »

Adam Strohl

Thursday, October 18, 2018


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PHP-FPM Chroot “security library: invalid algorithm”

After an OS update on one of our client servers we witnessed a perplexing error in their chrooted PHP-FPM environment: security library: invalid algorithm This is produced when the chroot’s libraries were out of sync with the base system, in our case updating usr/lib64 fixed it. A simple fix but took a significant amount of… Read more »

Adam Strohl

Monday, June 11, 2018


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Expand ZFS To Use Larger Disks / Free Space

One of the great features of ZFS is to be able to expand it using new, larger disks — even while it is online. To do this you’ll replace each disk, one by one with a larger disk. After each replacement you’ll rebuild the zpool, and then move on to the next disk. Once all… Read more »

Adam Strohl

Tuesday, February 13, 2018


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Debian 8 Under Bhyve Networking Problem: Packets Over 230 Bytes Truncated

We’re a big fan of FreeBSD’s Bhyve hypervisor, including writing an open source lightweight management interface for it called BMT. While setting up a Debian 8 guest VM we ran into a perplexing issue where networking was not working correctly. After much troubleshooting we narrowed down the symptom to be that packets larger than 230… Read more »

Adam Strohl

Friday, November 17, 2017


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SOLVED: Can’t Connect to Linux Server Behind NAT From Linux/FreeBSD But Can From Windows

Strange networking behavior while trying to access a Linux server via NAT? Does it work from one computer but not another? We may have the solution! We recently ran across a situation where a Linux server was behind NAT (for VPN purposes), and we could access it just fine from a Windows 10 computer, however… Read more »

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