SV-257783r991562: RHEL 9 systemd-journald service must be enabled. | Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 STIG SCAP Benchmark

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Assessment Title

Rule Text

RHEL 9 systemd-journald service must be enabled.

Description

Discussion Text

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.

How this relates to the STIG checklist: STIG vs SCAP benchmark.

IA Controls

NIST SP 800-53

Not mappedCCI-001665

References

DPMS Target Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 DISA DPMS Target Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 5551

SCC Automation Reference

The reconstructed evaluation script behind this rule's OVAL check(s) — every module a compound check combines, with this rule's own concrete values and DISA's SCC tool's real per-module mechanism curated from static teardown of SCC releases.

#!/bin/bash
# Reconstructed from oval:mil.disa.stig.rhel9os:def:257783
# RHEL 9 systemd-journald service must be enabled.
# Per-module read mechanism curated from static teardown of DISA's SCC tool
# (SCAP Compliance Checker) -- see the SCC Automation Reference above.

# systemdunitproperty_object (systemdunitproperty_test)
test_1() {
  (systemctl show -p 'ActiveState' --value 'systemd-journald.service') | grep -qxF 'active'
}

if test_1; then
  echo "PASS"
else
  echo "FAIL"
fi

Assessment Script Powered by AISandbox-executed

A standalone Shell script to assess this control automatically. Review before running it in your environment.

Syntax-checked and actually executed in an isolated sandbox (not the real system this checks) — confirmed to run without errors.

#!/bin/sh
# OVAL Definition: oval:mil.disa.stig.rhel9os:def:257783
if [ ! -x /usr/bin/systemctl ]; then
    echo "FAIL"
    exit 1
fi
if [ -z $(systemctl is-enabled --quiet systemd-journald) ]; then
    echo "FAIL"
    exit 1
else
    if [ $(systemctl is-active --quiet systemd-journald) ]; then
        echo "PASS"
    else
        echo "FAIL"
    fi
fi
exit 0

Remediation

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

$ sudo systemctl enable --now systemd-journald