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V-281096

CAT II (Medium)

RHEL 10 must enable the systemd-journald service.

Rule ID

SV-281096r1165643_rule

STIG

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 Security Technical Implementation Guide

Version

V1R1

CCIs

CCI-001665

Discussion

In the event of a system failure, RHEL 10 must preserve any information necessary to determine cause of failure and return to operations with least disruption to system processes.

Check Content

Verify RHEL 10 enables the systemd-journald service with the following command:

$ systemctl is-active systemd-journald
active

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

Fix Text

Configure RHEL 10 to enable the systemd-journald service.

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

$ sudo systemctl enable --now systemd-journald