From e4b3d0ec97ded2658543e02a61896a50d65b6944 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jeff Minard <github.com@jrm.cc>
Date: Wed, 4 May 2011 01:54:18 +0800
Subject: [PATCH] Adding even BETTER error handling that catches ECONREFUSED
 when carbon it totally offline

---
 stats.js | 9 ++++++++-
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/stats.js b/stats.js
index 97a5ce12..f76d1738 100644
--- a/stats.js
+++ b/stats.js
@@ -121,12 +121,19 @@ config.configFile(process.argv[2], function (config, oldConfig) {
       
       try {
         var graphite = net.createConnection(config.graphitePort, config.graphiteHost);
+        graphite.addListener('error', function(connectionException){
+          if (config.debug) {
+            sys.log(connectionException);
+          }
+        });
         graphite.on('connect', function() {
           this.write(statString);
           this.end();
         });
       } catch(e){
-        // no big deal
+        if (config.debug) {
+          sys.log(e);
+        }
       }
 
     }, flushInterval);