diff -rupN a/bin/elasticsearch b/bin/elasticsearch
--- a/bin/elasticsearch	2017-05-17 10:53:49.444487071 +0200
+++ b/bin/elasticsearch	2017-05-17 10:55:52.755081523 +0200
@@ -129,12 +129,7 @@ ES_JAVA_OPTS="$(parse_jvm_options "$ES_J
 # If an include wasn't specified in the environment, then search for one...
 if [ "x$ES_INCLUDE" = "x" ]; then
     # Locations (in order) to use when searching for an include file.
-    for include in /usr/share/elasticsearch/elasticsearch.in.sh \
-                   /usr/local/share/elasticsearch/elasticsearch.in.sh \
-                   /opt/elasticsearch/elasticsearch.in.sh \
-                   ~/.elasticsearch.in.sh \
-                   "$ES_HOME/bin/elasticsearch.in.sh" \
-                   "`dirname "$0"`"/elasticsearch.in.sh; do
+    for include in "`dirname "$0"`"/elasticsearch.in.sh; do
         if [ -r "$include" ]; then
             . "$include"
             break
diff -rupN a/bin/elasticsearch.in.sh b/bin/elasticsearch.in.sh
--- a/bin/elasticsearch.in.sh	2017-04-28 19:41:47.000000000 +0200
+++ b/bin/elasticsearch.in.sh	2017-05-17 10:56:49.303519788 +0200
@@ -1,13 +1 @@
 #!/bin/bash
-
-# check in case a user was using this mechanism
-if [ "x$ES_CLASSPATH" != "x" ]; then
-    cat >&2 << EOF
-Error: Don't modify the classpath with ES_CLASSPATH. Best is to add
-additional elements via the plugin mechanism, or if code must really be
-added to the main classpath, add jars to lib/ (unsupported).
-EOF
-    exit 1
-fi
-
-ES_CLASSPATH="$ES_HOME/lib/*"