OL 9 systemd-journald service must be enabled.

Overview

Finding ID	Version	Rule ID	IA Controls	Severity
V-271739	OL09-00-002400	SV-271739r1091929_rule		Medium

Description

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.

STIG	Date
Oracle Linux 9 Security Technical Implementation Guide	2025-05-08

Details

Check Text (C-75789r1091927_chk)

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 (F-75696r1091928_fix)

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

$ sudo systemctl enable --now systemd-journald