Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 Security Technical Implementation Guide

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Severity

Version

V2 · R9

ArchivedPublished Wed Jul 01 2026

RHEL 9 systemd-journald service must be enabled.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 Security Technical Implementation Guide

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.

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Objective

V-257783

Rule

SV-257783r991562_rule

Severity

medium

Rule Version

RHEL-09-211040

Documentable

false

IA Controls

NIST SP 800-53

Rev 5

Assessment Procedure

Check Text

Verify that "systemd-journald" is active with the following command:

$ systemctl is-active systemd-journald

active

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

Implementation Procedure

Fix Text

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

$ sudo systemctl enable --now systemd-journald

STIG check 6 of 445 in the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 STIG checklist

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