From 9c582259be4b88532ebe20fd44076bef043a6926 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Kovid Goyal <kovid@kovidgoyal.net>
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 2016 15:17:35 +0530
Subject: [PATCH] ...

---
 setup/plugins_mirror.py | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/setup/plugins_mirror.py b/setup/plugins_mirror.py
index f778fcae01..dcf602c3ab 100644
--- a/setup/plugins_mirror.py
+++ b/setup/plugins_mirror.py
@@ -495,7 +495,7 @@ def singleinstance():
 
 def update_stats():
     log = olog = 'stats.log'
-    if not os.path.exists(log):
+    if os.geteuid() != 0 or not os.path.exists(log):
         return {}
     stats = {}
     if IS_PRODUCTION: