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Enable syslog-ng Service

An XCCDF Rule

Description

The syslog-ng service (in replacement of rsyslog) provides syslog-style logging by default on Debian. The syslog-ng service can be enabled with the following command: 
$ sudo systemctl enable syslog-ng.service

Rationale

The syslog-ng service must be running in order to provide logging services, which are essential to system administration.

ID
xccdf_org.ssgproject.content_rule_service_syslogng_enabled
Severity
Medium
References
Updated

Remediation Templates

A Puppet Snippet

include enable_syslog-ng
class enable_syslog-ng {
  service {'syslog-ng':
    enable => true,
    ensure => 'running',
  }
}

OS Build Blueprint

[customizations.services]
enabled = ["syslog-ng"]

An Ansible Snippet

- name: Gather the package facts
  package_facts:
    manager: auto
  tags:
  - NIST-800-53-AU-4(1)
  - NIST-800-53-CM-6(a)

A Shell Script

# Remediation is applicable only in certain platforms
if rpm --quiet -q kernel; then
SYSTEMCTL_EXEC='/usr/bin/systemctl'
"$SYSTEMCTL_EXEC" unmask 'syslog-ng.service'
"$SYSTEMCTL_EXEC" start 'syslog-ng.service'
"$SYSTEMCTL_EXEC" enable 'syslog-ng.service'