diff --git a/CONTRIBUTORS b/CONTRIBUTORS
index 13e402ac..fd584d88 100644
--- a/CONTRIBUTORS
+++ b/CONTRIBUTORS
@@ -2734,3 +2734,6 @@ Holger Dengler <holger.dengler@gmx.de>
 
 Michael Eiler <eiler.mike@gmail.com>
  - reporting a crash in case cSkins::Message() is called from a background thread
+
+Jonas Diemer <jonasdiemer@googlemail.com>
+ for fixing the return value of the svdrpsend.pl script in case of an error
diff --git a/HISTORY b/HISTORY
index 6af67527..3b3c4e30 100644
--- a/HISTORY
+++ b/HISTORY
@@ -6659,3 +6659,5 @@ Video Disk Recorder Revision History
   Christoph Haubrich).
 - cSkins::Message() now blocks calls from background threads (thanks to Michael
   Eiler for reporting a crash in such a scenario).
+- Fixed the return value of the svdrpsend.pl script in case of an error (thanks to
+  Jonas Diemer).
diff --git a/svdrpsend.pl b/svdrpsend.pl
index 03d78fea..caf3b41f 100755
--- a/svdrpsend.pl
+++ b/svdrpsend.pl
@@ -52,6 +52,6 @@ sub Error
 {
   print STDERR "@_\n";
   close(SOCK);
-  exit 0;
+  exit 1;
 }