In Yosemite, Apple removed support for environment variables in launchd.conf, so you need to find another way to set global, system-wide environment variables. For example, if you want solidangle_LICENSE to be automatically set, you could use a launchd plist.
Here’s an example plist that uses launchctl to set the solidangle_LICENSE environment variable.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd"> <plist version="1.0"> <dict> <key>Label</key> <string>com.solidangle.setenv</string> <key>ProgramArguments</key> <array> <string>/bin/launchctl</string> <string>setenv</string> <string>solidangle_LICENSE</string> <string>5053@replace-me</string> </array> <key>RunAtLoad</key> <true/> <key>ServiceIPC</key> <false/> </dict> </plist>
You’ll need to edit this plist and save it in /Library/LaunchDaemons. The file permissions and ownership should look like this:
-rw-r--r--@ 1 root wheel 661 Oct 22 13:52 com.solidangle.setenv.plist
Use sudo chmod to set the permissions, and sudo chown root:wheel to set the ownerships.
Then load the plist:
sudo launchctl load -w /Library/LaunchDaemons/com.solidangle.setenv.plist
And then restart your machine.
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or on a per user basis you create a .profile file in the root of the user-dir and put something like
export solidangle_LICENSE=”5053@replace-me”
a logout and login should make sure it’s updated