Cannot catch 'error' event

[tahsintahsin]

I am unable to trigger error action. My code is:
child.on('error', function (err) { console.log('An error occured '+err); });
I can see that the error occurs and my server crashes and restarts. However, I want to be able to capture the event because inside of the listener I want to be able to log the error and send a warning email to myself.
I am curious what I am doing wrong, a similar issue is opened (#19) but that wasn't answered either.