STIGUI
V-271739CAT II — Medium severitySV-271739r1091929_rule

OL 9 systemd-journald service must be enabled.

Rule version OL09-00-002400 · STIG v1 · 2026-08-21

Discussion

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.

Check

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

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

$ sudo systemctl enable --now systemd-journald

Identifiers

Group ID
V-271739
Group title
SRG-OS-000269-GPOS-00103
Rule ID
SV-271739r1091929_rule
Check ID
C-75789r1091927_chk
Fix ID
F-75696r1091928_fix