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V-257783

CAT II (Medium)

RHEL 9 systemd-journald service must be enabled.

Rule ID

SV-257783r991562_rule

STIG

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 Security Technical Implementation Guide

Version

V2R8

CCIs

CCI-001665

Discussion

In the event of a system failure, RHEL 9 must preserve any information necessary to determine cause of failure and any information necessary to return to operations with least disruption to system processes.

Check Content

Verify that "systemd-journald" is active with the following command:

$ systemctl is-active systemd-journald

active

If the systemd-journald service is not active, this is a finding.

Fix Text

To enable the systemd-journald service, run the following command:

$ sudo systemctl enable --now systemd-journald