Alert OR syslog?

["Weiss, Jeffrey H." <Jeffrey.Weiss () Pleasantco com>]

I am wondering why I cannot get both an alert log written AND syslogging to
occur.

My command line invocation: 
snort -b -c /usr/local/etc/snort/snort.conf -I -A full -l /logs/UA/snort -s
-i qfe0

Pertinent snort.conf(?):
output alert_syslog: LOG_ALERT

Is there something too obvious here?
Thanks!
Jeffrey Weiss