Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 • Release: 7 Benchmark Date: 05 Jan 2026

CAT II V-258142 RHEL-09-652020

The rsyslog service on RHEL 9 must be active.

Documentable No
Rule ID SV-258142r991589_rule
CCI References
CCI-000366

Discussion

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

Check Procedure

Verify that "rsyslog" is active with the following command:

$ systemctl is-active rsyslog 

active

If the rsyslog service is not active, this is a finding.

Fix Action

To enable the rsyslog service, run the following command:

$ sudo systemctl enable --now rsyslog