The rsyslog package is a third party package that provides many enhancements to syslog, such as multi-threading, TCP communication, message filtering and data base support.
Rationale:
The security enhancements of rsyslog such as connection-oriented (i.e. TCP) transmission of logs, the option to log to database formats, and the encryption of log data en route to a central logging server) justify installing and configuring the package.
Fix:
Ensure rsyslog or syslog-ng is installed:
# apt-get install rsyslog
[yes/no]
Ensure rsyslog or syslog-ng is installed:
# apt-get install rsyslog
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SCAP Repo OVAL Definition
2023-08-23