OK, answered my own question. Looks like creating an environment.plist in 
~/Library/LaunchAgents/ does the trick. 

now another. do you all create an init.py and menu.py on each workstation? I 
tried creating a simlink to files on a central server, which seems to work, but 
not sure if there are downsides to that approach? Trying to keep the admin to a 
minimum. 

Thanks

http://www.dowdandassociates.com/blog/content/howto-set-an-environment-variable-in-mac-os-x-launchd-plist/


Gary Jaeger / 650.728.7957 direct / 415.518.1419 mobile
http://corestudio.com <http://corestudio.com/>
> On Apr 24, 2017, at 3:58 PM, Gary Jaeger <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Where is the current place to set env variables on the mac? Googling gives me 
> various answers, none of which I can really get to work. The latest (and what 
> the foundry docs say)  seems to be launchd.conf, but for instance if I put 
> 
> setenv NUKE_PATH /Volumes/tools/nuke10_5
> setenv OFX_PLUGIN_PATH /Volumes/tools/nuke10_5/OFX
> 
> they don't seem to get picked up
> 
> also, what’s the difference between ‘setenv’ and ‘export’ ?
> 
> thanks
> 
> Gary Jaeger / 650.728.7957 direct / 415.518.1419 mobile
> http://corestudio.com <http://corestudio.com/>

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