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I have previously tested freesurfer running on the Expanse/SDSC cluster; I’m 
not aware of any issues there, e.g., running scripts that depend upon tcsh 
being installed under bin.  I believe they at least used to use spack to 
configure packages.
I have seen freesufer installed via the freesurfer .rpm or .deb package on a 
(dedicated) server which is then made available via NFS (read only) mount 
points into a cluster.  Neither does this setup have issues with the 
shells, commands, libraries, etc., freesurfer depends upon being installed in 
their standard locations.  End users should not be writing the results of 
their subject analyses or any files into the installed freesurfer distribution 
as part of running freesurfer commands.
But the compiled C++ binaries and/or scripts in the freesurfer distribution are 
not expected to run correctly unless the native linux package tools have been 
used to install the .rpm or .deb package including installing all the 
dependencies.   I thought the original poster mentioned they had no issue 
with freesurfer installed on a stand-alone machine.   If so, I would try 
and use the installer package the original poster mentioned ran on the 
stand-alone machine - and try to get that to work in the cluster.   
Alternately, the most recent 8.0.0 release freesurfer installer packages are 
available at the top of this 
page,https://secure-web.cisco.com/1-2c2DruDJu6g70Z2ppynBgBQqNyhUw_Iet89ZjVBQXCLO6S-Tr82c9k1YfPbsUMtbjxzqCpDKD3YmQDkVA5QkeMEkUhAzBxlqDKMqpDDFg2Fw_Jri8qc2ib2bqAVk3Y2Q8qqkUkb7n8I6SUoEanslW24SLPqJcehcd6YcfkcyuSO6jaxcpCucua5grKrbq-v6slEr0_xFkEpP8EssSastzfzyXTGIoVORt2LCB-fSs4NWEID07y1YMR2F5ev3I-KhxiZPd1TTdUodgv8twJ-vbIeb4lrOGel-MAE396A0xCT2L3SWe-CfUnM4PQceqxS/https%3A%2F%2Fsurfer.nmr.mgh.harvard.edu%2Ffswiki%2Frel7downloads
Short of a standard .deb or .rpm package install, you could as root in a 
stand-alone container do an interactive install with dpkg, apt, yum, etc… to 
generate a list of the required packages and then try to manually 
install/configure your cluster setup from that list.  But we do not test 
this way (and this is not officially supported).
- R.

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