El comando o conf nos permite ver y modificar las opciones de configuración:
cpan> o conf
CPAN::Config options and /home/casiano/.cpan/CPAN/MyConfig.pm:
    commit             Commit changes to disk
    defaults           Reload defaults from disk
    init               Interactive setting of all options
    build_cache        1000
    build_dir          /scratch/casiano/build
    cache_metadata     1
    cpan_home          /scratch/casiano/.cpan
    dontload_hash
    ftp                /usr/bin/ftp
    ftp_proxy
    getcwd             cwd
    gpg                /usr/bin/gpg
    gzip               /bin/gzip
    histfile           /scratch/casiano/.cpan/histfile
    histsize           100
    http_proxy
    inactivity_timeout 0
    index_expire       1
    inhibit_startup_message 0
    keep_source_where  /scratch/casiano/.cpan/sources
    lynx               /usr/bin/lynx
    make               /usr/bin/make
    make_arg
    make_install_arg
    makepl_arg         PREFIX=/soft/perl5lib/
    ncftpget           /usr/bin/ncftpget
    no_proxy
    pager              /usr/bin/less
    prerequisites_policy ask
    scan_cache         atstart
    shell              /bin/bash
    tar                /bin/tar
    term_is_latin      1
    unzip              /usr/bin/unzip
    urllist
        ftp://cpan.ip.pt/pub/cpan/
        ftp://ftp.rediris.es/mirror/CPAN/
        ftp://ftp.etse.urv.es/pub/perl/
        ftp://ftp.ri.telefonica-data.net/CPAN
        http://cpan.imasd.elmundo.es/
    wget               /usr/bin/wget
Casiano Rodríguez León
