RHEL 9 systemd-journald service must be enabled.

Documentable No

Rule ID SV-257783r991562_rule

CCI References

CCI-001665

Discussion

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.

Check Procedure

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.

Fix Action

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

$ sudo systemctl enable --now systemd-journald