diff --git a/functions.php b/functions.php
index db21caba0..5bcbfc1d7 100644
--- a/functions.php
+++ b/functions.php
@@ -362,6 +362,10 @@
 			return;			
 		}
 
+		if (defined('DAEMON_EXTENDED_DEBUG')) {
+			print "update_rss_feed: start\n";
+		}
+
 		$result = db_query($link, "SELECT update_interval,auth_login,auth_pass	
 			FROM ttrss_feeds WHERE id = '$feed'");
 
@@ -386,10 +390,22 @@
 
 		}
 
-		error_reporting(0);
+		if (defined('DAEMON_EXTENDED_DEBUG')) {
+			print "update_rss_feed: fetching...\n";
+		}
+
+		if (!defined('DAEMON_EXTENDED_DEBUG')) {
+			error_reporting(0);
+		}
+
 		$rss = fetch_rss($fetch_url);
-		error_reporting (DEFAULT_ERROR_LEVEL);
-		
+
+		if (defined('DAEMON_EXTENDED_DEBUG')) {
+			print "update_rss_feed: fetch done, parsing...\n";
+		} else {
+			error_reporting (DEFAULT_ERROR_LEVEL);
+		}
+
 		$feed = db_escape_string($feed);
 
 		if ($rss) {
@@ -840,6 +856,10 @@
 					last_updated = NOW() WHERE id = '$feed'");
 		}
 
+		if (defined('DAEMON_EXTENDED_DEBUG')) {
+			print "update_rss_feed: done\n";
+		}
+
 	}
 
 	function print_select($id, $default, $values, $attributes = "") {
diff --git a/update_daemon.php b/update_daemon.php
index 32054c5b3..f99e4f763 100644
--- a/update_daemon.php
+++ b/update_daemon.php
@@ -4,12 +4,12 @@
 	// continuously
 
 	define('DEFAULT_ERROR_LEVEL', E_ALL);
-	error_reporting(E_ALL);
 
 	declare(ticks = 1);
 
 	define('MAGPIE_CACHE_DIR', '/var/tmp/magpie-ttrss-cache-daemon');
 	define('DISABLE_SESSIONS', true);
+	define('DAEMON_EXTENDED_DEBUG', true);
 
 	define('PURGE_INTERVAL', 3600); // seconds
 
@@ -25,6 +25,8 @@
 	require_once "functions.php";
 	require_once "magpierss/rss_fetch.inc";
 
+	error_reporting(E_ALL);
+
 	function sigint_handler() {
 		unlink("update_daemon.lock");
 		die("Received SIGINT. Exiting.\n");