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V-271739

CAT II (Medium)

OL 9 systemd-journald service must be enabled.

Rule ID

SV-271739r1091929_rule

STIG

Oracle Linux 9 Security Technical Implementation Guide

Version

V1R5

CCIs

CCI-001665

Discussion

In the event of a system failure, OL 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 OL 9 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

Configure OL 9 to enable the systemd-journald service with the following command:

$ sudo systemctl enable --now systemd-journald