irk: bail out early on connection errors

Signed-off-by: Eric S. Raymond <esr@thyrsus.com>

diff --git a/irk b/irk
index 3ef9b4ef923b2c1f4cf5d05b8f8e334aa65b7794..1138a0677c90009da4e4818edab1d1f4b2c4570f 100755 (executable)
--- a/irk
+++ b/irk
@@ -24,6 +24,7 @@ try:
     s = socket.create_connection(("localhost", 6659))
 except socket.error, e:
     sys.stderr.write("irk: no irkerd running: %r\n" % e)
+    sys.exit(1)
 
 target = sys.argv[1]
 if not "irc:" in target: