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V-271602CAT II — Medium severitySV-271602r1092590_rule

OL 9 must write audit records to disk.

Rule version OL09-00-000880 · STIG v1 · 2026-08-21

Discussion

Audit data should be synchronously written to disk to ensure log integrity. This setting ensures that all audit event data is written disk.

Check

Verify that OL 9 audit system is configured to write logs to the disk with the following command:

$ sudo grep write_logs /etc/audit/auditd.conf write_logs = yes

If "write_logs" does not have a value of "yes", the line is commented out, or the line is missing, this is a finding.

Fix

Configure the audit system to write log files to the disk.

Edit the /etc/audit/auditd.conf file and add or update the "write_logs" option to "yes":

write_logs = yes

The audit daemon must be restarted for changes to take effect.

Restart auditd: $ sudo service auditd restart

Identifiers

Group ID
V-271602
Group title
SRG-OS-000480-GPOS-00227
Rule ID
SV-271602r1092590_rule
Check ID
C-75652r1091516_chk
Fix ID
F-75559r1092589_fix