About

on February 10 by

My name is Sohail Riaz, i have done MSc in Computer Science and I am also certified as Red Hat Certified Engineer # 804006019622746.

I am an expert level system administrator and worked in several reputed organization. I am currently holding a Senior Support Engineer post at ARAMCO Oil Company Saudi Arabia. You can see my CV here.

I live with Open Source and have contributed several articles / howto’s and softwares. My lastest contirubution is development of Cpanel Custom Module for Mod_GeoIP.

I have deployed several advance technologies including High Availability Clusters, Load Balancers, High End Web Servers, Cloud Computing and currently High Performance Computing Clusters.

I can give support on following.

1. Maintaining Windows, Linux / Unix servers.
2. Technical Consultancy.
3. Corporate Security Services.
4. Remote Server Administration.
5. Clusters / Load Balancing / High Availability Servers / High Performance Computing Cluster.
6. Network security auditing, hardening and updating.
7. IIS, Apache WWW server, SSL, PHP, CGI, DNS (Bind), FTP, ISA, Squid
8. Exchange Server, Sendmail, Qmail, Postfix, POP, IMAP, Anti Spam, Anti Relay, AntiVirus.
9. Perl-Shell-CGI-system scripting.
10. Kernel Upgradation, Performance Tuning.
11. Database (Oracle / MySql) Clusters / Replication. Etc.
12. Experienced in working under tight schedules and pressure environments.
13. FFMPEG, MPlayer, Red5, Flash Media Server installation /configuration
14. CPanel, Plesk, DirectAdmin, Ensim, Webmin, ISPConfig management.
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19 Responses to About

  1. [...] Sohail Riaz je ustvaril apache MOD_GEOIP modul za cPanel. S tem modulom bomo preprečili dostop obiskovalcem, ki niso iz Slovenije, do cpanel ter whm vsebin. [...]

  2. Muhammad Umar Rasul says:

    How to configure the POP TOP On RHEL 5 by using the the two lancard Scenario.
    as well as i want to configure the Proxy Squid on the Same Machine.

    One is local and other will use the Live IP.

    Can someone give me the step by step instruction.

    Waitinf for the Urgent response.

  3. Armaani says:

    Can you post tutorial for “How to add alternative port 587 to postfix in linux server”

    Thanks

  4. Shah Jehan says:

    Dear Sir,
    It a very nice site. I learn alot form this website.
    Sir I want to upgrade my servers. I perchesed DL 380 g6 servers and want to install Web & mail server on one sever. FTP on one server and DNS on one server. Please guide me that which OS is for which server is good that i US it.

    waiting for your reply.
    Thanks and regards,

    Shah Jee

  5. mohsin says:

    hi this is mohsin from peshawar
    i have some problem : i installed oracle 10g on linux 4 and 6i forms on window when i connect forms to db it gives an error : ora-12545 host and obect is not exist

    note: there is no issue of db installation

    thanks

    mohsin

  6. cozypaul says:

    Hi,
    great web site, helped me to compile ffmpeg on SLES10…

    thank you ….

    take care

  7. Syed Salman Ali Zaidi says:

    I have installed RED5 and it is running but I have some problem with ports RTMPT and RTMPS my file is as follows. How can I fix it.

    <!– Enable this if you want to allow global scope connections

    –>

    <!– You can now add additional ports and ip addresses

    –>


    <!–

    –>

    –>

  8. Naeem Arshad says:

    Sir I’m looking to get my certification and I live in Riyadh. Please guide me the easy way to find some training on redhat. I’ll be looking for your kind reply.

    Thanks and regards,
    Naeem Arshad

  9. Hamid AK says:

    Sir i need VPN proxy etc, coz skype etc not working here in UAE.

  10. james aco says:

    Hi
    i need red5 (as openmeetings demo)installaition on my cpanel server with-
    an automat system plugin:
    The teacher will update the calendar on the day it is available
    The student buys a package for example 50 hours with a credit card.
    Each time the student uses the virtual room
    This updated package to balance the hours.
    After using the all package, the season is Closed and the possibility of the student to use the virtual classroom.
    .
    Maybe other systems integration option with the system to allow this, such as moodle?

    Thank you

  11. james aco says:

    configuring red5 application

    Hi
    we installed red5 on our vps with 3d company and know we need someone to configure red5 application
    skype user – “elearn-”
    elearnnow1@gmail.com

    Thank you

  12. Iftikhar Ahmed says:

    Dear Sohail,
    Recently i discover your site and its really handy for me and i appreciate your efforts,
    i need help about making linux ghost.
    i am using centos 5.6 and if you have any experience about how to make ghost of centos 5.6,
    thxxx

  13. rashid says:

    Dear Iftikhar,

    You can use dd command and through dd command you can made the image of entire harddisk……
    http://www.thegeekstuff.com/2010/10/dd-command-examples/

    you can refer this site for further assistance

    Rashid

  14. Sajid ALi says:

    sir i need help to install Red5 kindly reply me on my email maybe i can do something for you i m domain and hosting provider thanks

  15. Leon Harris says:

    Hi Sohail,

    Really could use your help installing Red 5 and setting up a basic channel registration page like on this site:

    http://www.hogy.tv/

    Please get back to me asap using my email address.

    Thanks

  16. M.Wajid says:

    Asslam o alaikum,

    I have implemented qmail MTA on centos 5 from your provided document qmail rocks updated, it works fine sending(local and remote) and receiving(local) .

    The problem is that it sends message without authentication from mail client Outlook express and Microsoft outlook.

    I want to enable authentication for my server.

    Please guide me step by step.

  17. Kaiser Khalil says:

    Sir can you please post a asterisk howto for totally newbies as there are many tutorials on internet but no one tells about basic that how to setup basic asterisk on Lan or with live IP as newbies dont know about T1 or PRI cards and configrations.

  18. Talha Awan says:

    I really appreciate your work. I am following your blog. You have shared some really nice how to articles. Keep us updated.

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