Scheduled tasks with cron
Day 3 added a scheduled 5am job for daily prospect searches and action plan updates:
bashopenclaw cron add \
--name "morning-brief" \
--schedule "0 5 * * *" \
--tz "America/Chicago" \
--message "Search for parking lot striping prospects. Review notes and prepare an action plan." \
--deliver telegram
Jobs are stored in ~/.openclaw/cron/jobs.json and use the announce delivery mode to send outputs to Telegram.
Sudo allowlist setup
The tito user was granted NOPASSWD sudo for specific commands under /etc/sudoers.d/tito-openclaw:
sudoersCmnd_Alias TITO_PKG = /usr/bin/apt, /usr/bin/apt-get, /usr/bin/dpkg
Cmnd_Alias TITO_SYSTEMD = /usr/bin/systemctl, /usr/bin/journalctl
Cmnd_Alias TITO_NET = /usr/sbin/ss, /usr/bin/tcpdump, /usr/bin/ngrep
Cmnd_Alias TITO_MISC = /usr/bin/tee, /usr/bin/install
TITO ALL=(root) NOPASSWD: TITO_PKG, TITO_SYSTEMD, TITO_NET, TITO_MISC
Validated with visudo -cf to ensure no syntax errors.
Sysadmin tools installed
With apt access, these packages were added:
- Network tools: tcpdump, tshark, iftop
- Host monitoring: htop, lsof, sysstat
- Security: ufw, fail2ban, aide
These tools provided visibility into host activity, traffic, and baseline security state.