Also, in case you guys didn't know.

In Linux only... you can send a USR1 sig to the snort process and it will dump its current stats to your logging mechanism (/var/log/system.log or /var/log/messages)...

(This is not a "linux is better than windows" thing) But I always make the recommendation NOT to run Snort on Windows.

Windows kernel isn't as fast.. Its a bad idea to run an IDS on a Windows box anyway... It's not made for Windows (yes it's COMPILED for windows, but not made for it)

I also suggest that anyone running <2.4.5 upgrade to at least that, if not 2.6.0.