But now I'm faced with the daunting task of upgrading (via CPAN on RH 7.2, and I don't know squat about CPAN) from 2.55.
7.2 has been end-of-lifed, so you might think about starting from scratch. I'd suggest getting a spare box and loading Fedora on it. (Free download, pretty similar to RH7.2 so it won't be too alien, and comes with SA 2.60.) Get it to do all the things your current box does, then move the cables over. That makes it easy to switch back in the event of a disaster.
(I'm in the process of doing exactly this, because my old 7.2 box would be painful to upgrade piecemeal and I don't want things to just die if an OS upgrade goes awry. I've already got Fedora running on several machines and one is slated to replace my mail gateway running sendmail, MIMEDefang, and SA to filter mail headed for an Exchange box.)
With Red Hat systems (including Fedora) you can generally install everything by RPM instead of CPAN. Strange things can happen if you use different packaging systems that don't know about each other, so use either RPM or CPAN but not both. And since CPAN handles only Perl, not other stuff, that makes it RPM for me. There's the Specfile package at CPAN that can be used to convert CPAN packages into RPM's.
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