Repair Permissions: ACL . . . on "Library"

I restarted my computer and repaired disk permissions. It displayed two errors:
Permissions differ on "private/var/log/secure.log", should be -re------, they are -rw-r------ ,
ACL found but not expected on "Library".
I repaired disk permissions a second time, fixing the first error. But the second error displays even after I repaired disk permissions a third time.
Can anyone tell me what this error means and how I can fix it?
Thanks.

Correct, but it will reappear the next time the secure.log file is rotated, which is done by the scheduled maintenance tasks. The effect of that repair is to make the secure.log file only readable by root, which doesn't make much difference on a home system.
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Still, what is the "e" permission that it says it should be? That just seems wrong.
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