Newbie questions: logs

[<ayse () deakin edu au>]

Warm greetings to all.

I have just installed snort on one of our boxes (yey)
and am very confused about all the logs.
In the snort directory - I have a
        log
        alert
        portscan.log

The above log files look v. similar in content. Can someone tell me
why the need for 3 outputs or point me to a doco that may enlighten me.
I have only enabled/played with the scan.rules options so far.

Many thanks in advance
ayse




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