Resolution
Programs started using service do not inherit the environment variables set in the shell’s path. You will need to modify /etc/default/Jenkins or /etc/sysconfig/jenkins (depending on the Linux distribution) to change the Java it uses. The Jenkins_Home location can be set in this file also.
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