diff --git a/templates/conf/environment.erb b/templates/conf/environment.erb
index 6a3a7ef..56913c8 100644
--- a/templates/conf/environment.erb
+++ b/templates/conf/environment.erb
@@ -1,29 +1,32 @@
 NAME=zookeeper
 ZOOCFGDIR=<%= scope.lookupvar("zookeeper::cfg_dir") %>
 
-<% if scope.lookupvar('zookeeper::install_method') != 'archive' and scope.lookupvar('zookeeper::service_provider') != 'systemd' -%>
+<% if scope.lookupvar('zookeeper::install_method') != 'archive' and 
+  (scope.lookupvar('zookeeper::service_provider') != 'systemd' or
+     (scope.lookupvar('zookeeper::service_provider') == 'systemd' and !scope.lookupvar('zookeeper::manage_service_file'))
+  )-%>
 # TODO this is really ugly
 # How to find out, which jars are needed?
 # seems, that log4j requires the log4j.properties file to be in the classpath
 CLASSPATH="<%= scope.lookupvar("zookeeper::cfg_dir") %>:/usr/share/java/jline.jar:/usr/share/java/log4j-1.2.jar:/usr/share/java/xercesImpl.jar:/usr/share/java/xmlParserAPIs.jar:/usr/share/java/netty.jar:/usr/share/java/slf4j-api.jar:/usr/share/java/slf4j-log4j12.jar:/usr/share/java/zookeeper.jar"
 <% end -%>
 
 ZOOCFG="<%= scope.lookupvar("zookeeper::cfg_dir") %>/zoo.cfg"
 ZOO_LOG_DIR=<%= scope.lookupvar("zookeeper::log_dir") %>
 USER=<%= scope.lookupvar("zookeeper::user") %>
 GROUP=<%= scope.lookupvar("zookeeper::group") %>
 PIDDIR=<%= scope.lookupvar("zookeeper::pid_dir") %>
 PIDFILE=<%= scope.lookupvar("zookeeper::pid_path") %>
 SCRIPTNAME=/etc/init.d/$NAME
 JAVA=<%= scope.lookupvar("zookeeper::java_bin") %>
 ZOOMAIN="<%= scope.lookupvar("zookeeper::zoo_main") %>"
 ZOO_LOG4J_PROP="<%= scope.lookupvar("zookeeper::log4j_prop") %>"
 JMXLOCALONLY=false
 <% if scope.lookupvar('zookeeper::use_sasl_auth') -%>
 JAVA_OPTS="<%= scope.lookupvar("zookeeper::java_opts") %> -Djava.security.auth.login.config=<%= File.join(scope.lookupvar("zookeeper::cfg_dir"), "jaas.conf") -%>"
 <% else -%>
 JAVA_OPTS="<%= scope.lookupvar("zookeeper::java_opts") %>"
 <% end -%>
 # will be concatenated with JVMFLAGS var
 # see https://github.com/apache/zookeeper/blob/master/bin/zkServer.sh#L78
 SERVER_JVMFLAGS=$JAVA_OPTS