Author: Sohail

Website: http://www.sohailriaz.com
Bio: I am a First Red Hat Certified Architect - RHCA (ID # 110-082-666) from Pakistan with over 14 years industry experience in several disciplines including LINUX/UNIX System Administration, Virtualization, Network, Storage, Load Balances, HA Clusters and High Performance Computing.
Jan 19 |
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Sohail Riaz |
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I came across an issue while installing ATI Radeon Catalyst drivers on my new Fedora 18 installation. It kept failing by saying one of the required tool is missing to proceed further with installation. By looking into log file, I...
Jan 12 |
Linux |
Sohail Riaz |
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In this howto I will describe how to install shutter (screenshot tool like snippingtool in windows) on Fedora 17. Shutter is a GTK+ 2.0 screenshot application written in perl. It gives a sophisticated way of capturing screenshot...
Apr 3 |
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Sohail Riaz |
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A project Open Icon Library (http://openiconlibrary.sourceforge.net/) will be very useful for the developers / designers to use icon free, modify and redistribute. I found it very helpful to community and some how everybody in...
Apr 1 |
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In this howto I will describe how to Downgrade a RPM Package Using YUM. Yum came with a plugin named yum-allowdowngrade which allow you to downgrade any existing install RPM to older version. This requirement came from one of my...
Mar 31 |
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Sohail Riaz |
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In this how to I will describe how to remove any i386 RPM Package from your x86_64 version of install. The operating system can be RHEL, Fedora or CentOS. Sometimes using yum we accidentally or intentionally or as requirement we...
Feb 25 |
Linux |
Sohail Riaz |
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In this How To we are going to add EPEL (Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux) on CentOS / RHEL 6.x. Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux (or EPEL) is a Fedora Special Interest Group that creates, maintains, and manages a high...
Feb 21 |
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Sohail Riaz |
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In this howto we will discuss how to prevent any package to be update using yum even its update is available. Sometimes we require to stick with current version of any installed rpm package and does not need to update. But...
Feb 16 |
Linux |
Sohail Riaz |
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In this HowTo we will discuss to encypt files using GnuPG. Encryption is a method which protect data stored on your computer or sending over the network from compromise. It can be used to ensure and verify data comes from a...
May 26 |
Linux |
Sohail Riaz |
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In this howto I will describe how to fix bluetooth issue in Fedora 15. I updated Fedora 15 last night and found out my bluetooth mouse is not connected. By seeing icon at tray, it shows bluetooth is on but visibility option was...
Jul 5 |
Linux |
Sohail Riaz |
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In this howto i will describe how to fix MySql error ‘Could not parse relay log event entry’. On one of my client database replication cluster we got issue of ‘Could not parse relay log event entry’ on...