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V-281096CAT II — Medium severitySV-281096r1165643_rule

RHEL 10 must enable the systemd-journald service.

Rule version RHEL-10-500000 · STIG v1 · 2026-09-17

Discussion

In the event of a system failure, RHEL 10 must preserve any information necessary to determine cause of failure and return to operations with least disruption to system processes.

Check

Verify RHEL 10 enables the systemd-journald service with the following command:

$ systemctl is-active systemd-journald active

If the systemd-journald service is not active, this is a finding.

Fix

Configure RHEL 10 to enable the systemd-journald service.

To enable the systemd-journald service, run the following command:

$ sudo systemctl enable --now systemd-journald

Identifiers

Group ID
V-281096
Group title
SRG-OS-000269-GPOS-00103
Rule ID
SV-281096r1165643_rule
Check ID
C-85657r1165641_chk
Fix ID
F-85562r1165642_fix