Removing .cpan Directory

From: mmccaws2 <mmccaws@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 02 Nov 2007 19:54:17 -0700

What happens if one remove .cpan directory in the home directory. I'm
locked out of the perl shell, reinstalled perl, and still can't
perl -e shell

This symptom seems to have isolated the problem to my configuration.

Mike

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