Rule version OL09-00-000880 · STIG v1 · 2026-08-21
Audit data should be synchronously written to disk to ensure log integrity. This setting ensures that all audit event data is written disk.
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.
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