Running daily tasks

As we replaced the boot component with systemd in EL7 we lost the ability to schedule daily tasks using the boot.run resources. This has now been replaced with the specialist runner component. I have some plans for how we can make this new component a lot more useful, particularly with machines which we want to sleep whenever idle, but for now it is just a more or less straight replacement for the boot component run method. This has been running for a few weeks on our EL7 machines and happily managing the daily updaterpms task. Documentation is now available on the LCFG wiki with examples of how it can be used. I also took the chance to document the old boot component run method since it looks like that was lacking a basic users guide.

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