in reply to Connecting Remote machines using perl.

If you're running this on a cluster node, don't you have some form of shared storage available to all nodes (even if it's just a minuscule ramdisk) you could use? You could install Net::SSH there and use lib the directory in order to avoid installation on all nodes.


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