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V-258142CAT II — Medium severitySV-258142r1268251_rule

The rsyslog service on RHEL 9 must be active.

Rule version RHEL-09-652020 · STIG v2 · 2026-09-17

Discussion

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

Check

Verify that "rsyslog" is active with the following command:

$ systemctl is-active rsyslog 

active

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

Fix

To enable the rsyslog service, run the following command:

$ sudo systemctl enable --now rsyslog

Identifiers

Group ID
V-258142
Group title
SRG-OS-000480-GPOS-00227
Rule ID
SV-258142r1268251_rule
Check ID
C-61883r926411_chk
Fix ID
F-61807r926412_fix