I followed the directions, and it starts as a service. I have also tried the various switches like snort -v -i1. That is where I see them. On a good note, I got everything so that is looks like it is working, and I got Pulled Pork installed. I'm just not sure now how to trap what I really want to see. Working through the manual...
I reread your earlier post, and tried this:
d:\winids\snort\bin>snort -v -c d:\winids\snort\etc\snort.conf -i1
and got a string of stuff, but a fatal error, quitting. ERROR: Portscan log file 'log/\portscan.log' could not be opened: No such file or directory.
In my snort.conf there is this line: preprocessor sfportscan: proto { all } memcap { 10000000 } sense_level { low } logfile { \portscan.log } .
It is the only line with \portscan.