Is it possible to locate where an environmental variable is exported from?
 

Is there a way to check? Is there an order of precidence as to what will have the final say on what an environmental variable will be?

Order is /etc/profile and/or /etc/bashrc (global for all users) then $HOME/.profile and/or $HOME/.bashrc.

Of course each of these can source in other files that set variables. I worked on a system once where tracing it down once where when I was all done I found 5 levels of sourcing occuring because the .profile sourced a script which in turned sourced another which in turn source another and so on.

One way to figure it out might by adding a "-x" for debug to your .profile or .bashrc (you can try the /etc files but if anyone else logs in while you're testing they're going to be mighty confused by what they see).

Ah yes...there was some sourcing in there...thankfully not too deep, but that takes care of that...thanks! :D