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.

STIG	Date
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 Security Technical Implementation Guide	2025-05-14

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