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V-282545CAT II — Medium severitySV-282545r1200615_rule

The TOSS 5 systemd-journald service must be enabled.

Rule version TOSS-05-000089 · STIG v1 · 2026-08-20

Discussion

In the event of a system failure, TOSS 5 must preserve any information necessary to determine cause of the failure and return to operations with the least disruption to system processes.

Check

Verify "systemd-journald" is active on TOSS 5 using the following command:

$ systemctl is-active systemd-journald

active

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

Fix

Enable the "systemd-journald" service using the following command:

$ sudo systemctl enable --now systemd-journald

Identifiers

Group ID
V-282545
Group title
SRG-OS-000269-GPOS-00103
Rule ID
SV-282545r1200615_rule
Check ID
C-87106r1200613_chk
Fix ID
F-87011r1200614_fix