Question

Whenever I open a Bash shell, my classpath is “someProgram”. I know that adding an export entry to “.bashrc” changes my classpath, but I want to know where “someProgram” is being added to the classpath (it’s not in “.bashrc”).

Is there a way to track down where this is being set, or some typical spots I should be checking besides “.bashrc”?

Details:

I’m using Ubuntu 9.10.

Eclipse Version: 3.5.1 is installed.

echo $SHELL
/bin/bash

java -version
java version "1.6.0_0"
OpenJDK Runtime Environment (IcedTea6 1.6.1) (6b16-1.6.1-3ubuntu1)
OpenJDK Server VM (build 14.0-b16, mixed mode)

javac -version
javac 1.6.0_15

More details if requested.

Checked:

• ~/.bashrc
• /etc/profile
• /etc/profile.d/*
• ~/.bash_profile (not present)
• ~/.bash_login (not present)
• ~/.profile
• /etc/bash.bashrc

Found!

/etc/environment

Answer 1

Ah yes, the whackamole process of finding which startup file is sourced where. I propose brute forcing it, try:

$ grep CLASSPATH .?*
$ grep -r CLASSPATH --binary-files=without-match /etc/ 2>/dev/null