RHEL-06-000289 - The netconsole service must be disabled unless required - 'Running'.

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_RHEL_6_V2R2_STIG.zip

Item Details

Category: CONFIGURATION MANAGEMENT

References: 800-53|CM-7b., CAT|III, CCI|CCI-000382, Rule-ID|SV-218039r603264_rule, STIG-ID|RHEL-06-000289, STIG-Legacy|SV-50473, STIG-Legacy|V-38672, Vuln-ID|V-218039

Plugin: Unix

Control ID: 0cf757a566c5b0ae31170c7b06876509c2cccf43f80fa4425628dce9b822f815