newsyslog - screwed up system.log permissions

[coltrane58]

I was trying to manually clean up my system and I ran newsyslog to reset the system log. well I screwed up the permissions. note to self: don't do it unless you understand it!!! When I go into the console and select the system log the bottom system bar says I do not have permission to read the log. At first it didn't show a permission entry for wheel. I ran the following: chmod 0640 system.log, and now wheel has permissions but I still cannot access the log. One strange thing is that when I view the permissions in a ls output there is a '@' sign following the permissions:

-rw-r-----@ 1 root wheel 139648 May 1 12:38 system.log

so how bad did I screw things up and how can I fix it. While I'm at it what went wrong when I ran:

sudo newsyslog -F /var/log/system.log

thanks for the help

john