[clug] Daemonizing a shell

[Michael.James at csiro.au]

I have a package that provides function calls at the command line.
Trouble is that I have to initialise the package before they work,
 and that's more expensive (in time) than a single function call.

Not a problem on a single computer, I login,
 initialise the package and am ready to do many function calls.

But in a cluster, I want to fire calls at nodes remotely.
Any easy way (a perl daemon would be nice)
 to have a command line open (and initialised),
 continously waiting for input?

TIA,
michaelj

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