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V-280984

CAT II (Medium)

RHEL 10 must have the rsyslog service set to active.

Rule ID

SV-280984r1165307_rule

STIG

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 Security Technical Implementation Guide

Version

V1R1

CCIs

CCI-000133

Discussion

The rsyslog service must be running to provide logging services, which are essential to system administration.

Check Content

Verify RHEL 10 rsyslog is active with the following command:

$ systemctl is-active rsyslog
active

If the rsyslog service is not active, this is a finding.

Fix Text

Configure RHEL 10 to enable the rsyslog service with the following command:

$ sudo systemctl enable --now rsyslog