I finaly managed to get snort installed and running on my Windows 98 SE box.

The file Alert.ids was created and placed in the directory:

C:\Inetpub\wwwroot\Logs\


C:\snort\snort -W

Note: snort was installed in C:\Snort. But there was no bin directorys created,

Snort displayed the available network adapters:

My PCI ethernet card was shown to be on fe100 as the first adapter.

C:\snort\snort -c c:\snort\snort.conf -l c:\Inetpub\wwwroot\Logs i1

Snort.exe was found in my C:\snort directory, NOT c:\snort\bin\ as c:\snort\bin was not created during install.

So I get stuff:

Initializeing network interface fe100

Initializeing snort
....
.
...
.
Initialization complete.

I then checked to see if alet.ids was created, it was, so I opened with notepad, and it was empty:::

Can someone tell me why it is not logging to alert.ids. I did open a few web sites before looking at alert.ids