diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 36a13ee..d1f53d9 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 tests/testthat/unittests-files
-
 BatchJobs_*.tar.gz
 BatchJobs.Rcheck
 .Rproj.user
+BatchJobs.Rproj
+.Rbuildignore
 *.Rproj
diff --git a/DESCRIPTION b/DESCRIPTION
index 67df3b9..e699e91 100644
--- a/DESCRIPTION
+++ b/DESCRIPTION
@@ -34,6 +34,6 @@ Suggests:
     testthat
 LazyData: yes
 ByteCompile: yes
-Version: 1.8
+Version: 1.8-666
 RoxygenNote: 7.1.0
 Encoding: UTF-8
diff --git a/R/batchReduceResults.R b/R/batchReduceResults.R
index 6b7d605..1cc8acd 100644
--- a/R/batchReduceResults.R
+++ b/R/batchReduceResults.R
@@ -71,9 +71,9 @@ batchReduceResults = function(reg, reg2, fun, ids, part = NA_character_, init, b
     more.args = c(more.args, list(..reg = reg, ..fun = fun, ..part = part)))
 }
 
-batchReduceResultsWrapper = function(aggr, x, ..reg, ..fun, ..part) {
+batchReduceResultsWrapper = function(aggr, x, ..reg, ..fun, ..part, ...) {
   # x is id
   # use lazy evaluation, if fun doesn't access job or res (unlikely)
   ..fun(aggr = aggr, job = getJob(..reg, x, check.id = FALSE),
-        res = getResult(..reg, x, ..part))
+        res = getResult(..reg, x, ..part), ...)
 }
diff --git a/R/clusterFunctionsHelpers.R b/R/clusterFunctionsHelpers.R
index 4c92621..403c9b8 100644
--- a/R/clusterFunctionsHelpers.R
+++ b/R/clusterFunctionsHelpers.R
@@ -45,8 +45,8 @@ cfBrewTemplate = function(conf, template, rscript, extension) {
   assertString(template)
   assertString(rscript)
   assertString(extension)
-  if (conf$debug) {
-    # if debug, place in jobs dir
+  if (conf$debug | conf$ssh) {
+    # if debug or job node over ssh, place in jobs dir
     outfile = sub("\\.R$", sprintf(".%s", extension), rscript)
   } else {
     outfile = tempfile("template")
@@ -113,8 +113,14 @@ cfKillBatchJob = function(cmd, batch.job.id, max.tries = 3L) {
   max.tries = asCount(max.tries)
   assertCount(max.tries)
 
+  conf = getBatchJobsConf()
   for (tmp in seq_len(max.tries)) {
-    res = runOSCommandLinux(cmd, batch.job.id, stop.on.exit.code = FALSE)
+    res = runOSCommandLinux(cmd, batch.job.id,
+                            stop.on.exit.code = FALSE,
+                            ssh = conf$ssh,
+                            nodename = conf$node,
+                            ssh.cmd = "ssh",
+                            ssh.args = "")
     if (res$exit.code == 0L)
       return()
     Sys.sleep(1)
diff --git a/R/clusterFunctionsSLURM.R b/R/clusterFunctionsSLURM.R
index d3432f0..0debaac 100644
--- a/R/clusterFunctionsSLURM.R
+++ b/R/clusterFunctionsSLURM.R
@@ -27,7 +27,12 @@ makeClusterFunctionsSLURM = function(template.file, list.jobs.cmd = c("squeue",
 
   submitJob = function(conf, reg, job.name, rscript, log.file, job.dir, resources, arrayjobs) {
     outfile = cfBrewTemplate(conf, template, rscript, "sb")
-    res = runOSCommandLinux("sbatch", outfile, stop.on.exit.code = FALSE)
+    res = runOSCommandLinux("sbatch", outfile,
+                            stop.on.exit.code = FALSE,
+                            ssh = conf$ssh,
+                            nodename = conf$node,
+                            ssh.cmd = "ssh",
+                            ssh.args = "")
 
     max.jobs.msg = "sbatch: error: Batch job submission failed: Job violates accounting policy (job submit limit, user's size and/or time limits)"
     temp.error = "Socket timed out on send/recv operation"
@@ -50,7 +55,11 @@ makeClusterFunctionsSLURM = function(template.file, list.jobs.cmd = c("squeue",
 
   listJobs = function(conf, reg) {
     # Result is lines of fully quantified batch.job.ids
-    jids = runOSCommandLinux(list.jobs.cmd[1L], list.jobs.cmd[-1L])$output
+    jids = runOSCommandLinux(list.jobs.cmd[1L], list.jobs.cmd[-1L],
+                             ssh = conf$ssh,
+                             nodename = conf$node,
+                             ssh.cmd = "ssh",
+                             ssh.args = "")$output
     stri_extract_first_regex(jids, "[0-9]+")
   }
 
diff --git a/R/conf.R b/R/conf.R
index 18f0514..aa73c9a 100644
--- a/R/conf.R
+++ b/R/conf.R
@@ -89,7 +89,7 @@ getConfNames = function() {
   c("cluster.functions", "mail.start", "mail.done", "mail.error",
     "mail.from", "mail.to", "mail.control", "db.driver", "db.options",
     "default.resources", "debug", "raise.warnings", "staged.queries",
-    "max.concurrent.jobs", "fs.timeout", "measure.mem")
+    "max.concurrent.jobs", "fs.timeout", "measure.mem", "ssh", "node")
 }
 
 checkConf = function(conf) {
@@ -102,7 +102,7 @@ checkConf = function(conf) {
 
 checkConfElements = function(cluster.functions, mail.to, mail.from,
   mail.start, mail.done, mail.error, mail.control, db.driver, db.options, default.resources, debug,
-  raise.warnings, staged.queries, max.concurrent.jobs, fs.timeout, measure.mem) {
+  raise.warnings, staged.queries, max.concurrent.jobs, fs.timeout, ssh, node, measure.mem) {
 
   mail.choices = c("none", "first", "last", "first+last", "all")
 
@@ -136,6 +136,10 @@ checkConfElements = function(cluster.functions, mail.to, mail.from,
     assertCount(max.concurrent.jobs)
   if (!missing(fs.timeout))
     assertNumber(fs.timeout)
+  if (!missing(ssh))
+    assertFlag(ssh)
+  if (!missing(node))
+    assertString(node)
   if (!missing(measure.mem))
     assertFlag(measure.mem)
 }
@@ -164,11 +168,13 @@ printableConf = function(conf) {
     "  staged.queries: %s",
     "  max.concurrent.jobs: %s",
     "  fs.timeout: %s",
-    "  measure.mem: %s\n",
+    "  measure.mem: %s",
+    "  ssh: %s",
+    "  node: %s\n",
     sep = "\n")
   sprintf(fmt, x$cluster.functions$name, x$mail.from, x$mail.to, x$mail.start, x$mail.done,
-    x$mail.error, convertToShortString(x$default.resources), x$debug, x$raise.warnings,
-    x$staged.queries, x$max.concurrent.jobs, x$fs.timeout, x$measure.mem)
+          x$mail.error, convertToShortString(x$default.resources), x$debug, x$raise.warnings,
+          x$staged.queries, x$max.concurrent.jobs, x$fs.timeout, x$measure.mem, x$ssh, x$node)
 }
 
 
diff --git a/R/doJob.R b/R/doJob.R
index 8826f4d..b9a80f7 100644
--- a/R/doJob.R
+++ b/R/doJob.R
@@ -52,7 +52,7 @@ doJob = function(reg, ids, multiple.result.files, staged, disable.mail, first, l
   }
 
   for (i in seq_len(n)) {
-    job = jobs[[i]]
+    job = jobs[[as.character(ids[i])]]
     messagef("########## Executing jid=%s ##########", job$id)
     started = Sys.time()
     msg.buf$push(dbMakeMessageStarted(reg, ids[i], time = as.integer(started)))
@@ -86,7 +86,7 @@ doJob = function(reg, ids, multiple.result.files, staged, disable.mail, first, l
         results[i] = "multiple.result.files is TRUE, but your algorithm did not return a list!"
         error[i] = TRUE
       } else if (!isProperlyNamed(result)) {
-         results[i] = "multiple.result.files is TRUE, but some the returned lists is not fully, distinctly named!"
+        results[i] = "multiple.result.files is TRUE, but some the returned lists is not fully, distinctly named!"
         error[i] = TRUE
       }
     }
@@ -118,9 +118,9 @@ doJob = function(reg, ids, multiple.result.files, staged, disable.mail, first, l
   # check if there are still remaining messages
   if (!msg.buf$empty()) {
     mail.extra.msg = paste("Some DB messages could not be flushed.",
-      "This indicates some DB problem or too much communication with the DB.",
-      "Everything should still be ok, you only might have to resubmit some jobs as they are not recorded as 'done'.",
-      sep = "\n")
+                           "This indicates some DB problem or too much communication with the DB.",
+                           "Everything should still be ok, you only might have to resubmit some jobs as they are not recorded as 'done'.",
+                           sep = "\n")
     warningf(mail.extra.msg)
   }
 
diff --git a/R/getJob.R b/R/getJob.R
index 4219367..aace161 100644
--- a/R/getJob.R
+++ b/R/getJob.R
@@ -35,5 +35,7 @@ getJobs = function(reg, ids, check.ids = TRUE) {
 getJobs.Registry = function(reg, ids, check.ids = TRUE) {
   if (!missing(ids) && check.ids)
     ids = checkIds(reg, ids)
-  dbGetJobs(reg, ids)
+  jobs <- dbGetJobs(reg, ids)
+  names(jobs) <- sapply(jobs, function(x) x$id)
+  jobs
 }
diff --git a/R/sourceRegistryFiles.R b/R/sourceRegistryFiles.R
index 6870b68..077188a 100644
--- a/R/sourceRegistryFiles.R
+++ b/R/sourceRegistryFiles.R
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ sourceRegistryFilesInternal = function(work.dir, dirs, files, envir = .GlobalEnv
   if (length(w))
     stopf("Directories to source not found, e.g. %s", dirs[w])
 
-  lapply(c(getRScripts(dirs), files), sys.source, envir = envir)
+  lapply(c(getRScripts(dirs), files), sys.source, envir = envir, chdir = TRUE)
   invisible(TRUE)
 }
 
diff --git a/R/submitJobs.R b/R/submitJobs.R
index d744943..969b984 100644
--- a/R/submitJobs.R
+++ b/R/submitJobs.R
@@ -219,6 +219,7 @@ submitJobs = function(reg, ids, resources = list(), wait, max.retries = 10L, chu
             resources = resources,
             arrayjobs = if(chunks.as.arrayjobs) length(id) else 1L
           )
+          Sys.sleep(1)
         }
 
         ### validate status returned from cluster functions