RHEL 9 systemd-journald service must be enabled.
Overview
Finding ID
Version
Rule ID
IA Controls
Severity
V-257783
RHEL-09-211040
SV-257783r991562_rule
Medium
Description
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.
Details
Check Text (C-61524r925334_chk)
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 (F-61448r925335_fix)
To enable the systemd-journald service, run the following command:
$ sudo systemctl enable --now systemd-journald
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