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V-271509CAT II — Medium severitySV-271509r1091239_rule

OL 9 must be configured so that the rsyslog service is active.

Rule version OL09-00-000351 · STIG v1 · 2026-08-21

Discussion

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

Check

Verify that OL 9 rsyslog is active with the following command:

$ systemctl is-active rsyslog active

If the rsyslog service is not active, this is a finding.

Fix

Enable the rsyslog service with the following command:

$ sudo systemctl enable --now rsyslog

Identifiers

Group ID
V-271509
Group title
SRG-OS-000480-GPOS-00227
Rule ID
SV-271509r1091239_rule
Check ID
C-75559r1091237_chk
Fix ID
F-75466r1091238_fix