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V-280984CAT II — Medium severitySV-280984r1165307_rule

RHEL 10 must have the rsyslog service set to active.

Rule version RHEL-10-200641 · STIG v1 · 2026-09-17

Discussion

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

Check

Verify RHEL 10 rsyslog is active with the following command:

$ systemctl is-active rsyslog active

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

Fix

Configure RHEL 10 to enable the rsyslog service with the following command:

$ sudo systemctl enable --now rsyslog

Identifiers

Group ID
V-280984
Group title
SRG-OS-000040-GPOS-00018
Rule ID
SV-280984r1165307_rule
Check ID
C-85545r1165305_chk
Fix ID
F-85450r1165306_fix