I am getting frequent crashes on my SL5 laptop;  the only data I
have is that a couple of indicator lights are flashing.  Such
crashes were rare with SL4.4 before I converted the machine. 
Sometimes, the crashes are while I am using the laptop, but more
often they occur between 1 and 4 am (most of my cron.daily jobs
kick off at 4am).  Often, the machine is logged in with a few
browser windows up and apps windows open.

What can I do to log the crashes, so I can tell the state of
the machine and see what is running when the crash occurs?  I'm
not a coder, so crash dumps will probably be too hard to use
without a lot of additional study.  I can write a script that
dumps a "ps" and a "free" into a date-named file in a log directory
every minute or so, but there is probably a more intelligent way.

Keith

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