Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 Security Technical Implementation Guide

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Version

V1 · R3

CurrentPublished Wed Sep 30 2026

RHEL 10 must periodically flush audit records to disk to ensure that audit records are not lost.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 Security Technical Implementation Guide

Assessment Title

Rule Text

RHEL 10 must periodically flush audit records to disk to ensure that audit records are not lost.

Description

Discussion Text

If option "freq" is not set to a value that requires audit records to be written to disk after a threshold number is reached, audit records may be lost.

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Objective

V-281111

Rule

SV-281111r1166285_rule

Severity

medium

Rule Version

RHEL-10-500125

Documentable

false

IA Controls

NIST SP 800-53

Rev 5

Assessment Procedure

Check Text

Verify RHEL 10 is configured to flush audit records to disk after every 100 records with the following command:

$ sudo grep freq /etc/audit/auditd.conf
freq = 100

If "freq" is not set to a value of "100" or greater, the value is missing, or the line is commented out, this is a finding.

Implementation Procedure

Fix Text

Configure RHEL 10 to flush audit records to disk by adding or updating the following rule in "/etc/audit/rules.d/audit.rules":

freq = 100

Restart the audit daemon with the following command for changes to take effect:

$ sudo service auditd restart

STIG check 180 of 435 in the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 STIG checklist

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