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V-258142

CAT II (Medium)

The rsyslog service on RHEL 9 must be active.

Rule ID

SV-258142r991589_rule

STIG

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 Security Technical Implementation Guide

Version

V2R8

CCIs

CCI-000366

Discussion

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

Check Content

Verify that "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

To enable the rsyslog service, run the following command:

$ sudo systemctl enable --now rsyslog