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V-282746CAT II — Medium severitySV-282746r1201218_rule

The rsyslog service on TOSS 5 must be active.

Rule version TOSS-05-000377 · STIG v1 · 2026-08-20

Discussion

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

Check

Verify "rsyslog" is active using 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-282746
Group title
SRG-OS-000480-GPOS-00227
Rule ID
SV-282746r1201218_rule
Check ID
C-87307r1201216_chk
Fix ID
F-87212r1201217_fix