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OL6-00-000289 - The netconsole service must be disabled unless required - 'Running'

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Information

The 'netconsole' service is not necessary unless there is a need to debug kernel panics, which is not common.

Solution

The 'netconsole' service is responsible for loading the netconsole kernel module, which logs kernel printk messages over UDP to a syslog server. This allows debugging of problems where disk logging fails and serial consoles are impractical. The 'netconsole' service can be disabled with the following commands:

# chkconfig netconsole off
# service netconsole stop

See Also

https://dl.dod.cyber.mil/wp-content/uploads/stigs/zip/U_Oracle_Linux_6_V2R6_STIG.zip

Item Details

References: CAT|III, CCI|CCI-000382, Rule-ID|SV-209022r793743_rule, STIG-ID|OL6-00-000289, STIG-Legacy|SV-65089, STIG-Legacy|V-50883, Vuln-ID|V-209022

Plugin: Unix

Control ID: 58301de060a78e65355bd4ab6eb8d56ae4e12346e7a087fd34f92b8e1f79d701