STIGUI
V-257783CAT II — Medium severitySV-257783r991562_rule

RHEL 9 systemd-journald service must be enabled.

Rule version RHEL-09-211040 · STIG v2 · 2026-09-17

Discussion

In the event of a system failure, RHEL 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 "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

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

$ sudo systemctl enable --now systemd-journald

Identifiers

Group ID
V-257783
Group title
SRG-OS-000269-GPOS-00103
Rule ID
SV-257783r991562_rule
Check ID
C-61524r925334_chk
Fix ID
F-61448r925335_fix