Mac OSX Terminals are opening slowly

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This is has been bugging me for several weeks, but now I stumbled on a solution. The asl logs for the Terminal.app are becoming large, and they slow down the startup.

Test iy by removing the log files and then opening Terminal.app again:

sudo rm -rf /private/var/log/asl/*.asl

You can make the logfiles clear out by editing /etc/asl.conf and then add this:

# only store logs for 2 weeks: value specified in seconds
= utmp_ttl 1209600
= fs_ttl 1209600

This will remove them after the time in seconds.

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