diff --git a/include/functions.php b/include/functions.php
index 4917bca2e..2f16ea58e 100644
--- a/include/functions.php
+++ b/include/functions.php
@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@
 	$fetch_last_error_code = false;
 	$fetch_last_content_type = false;
 	$fetch_curl_used = false;
+	$suppress_debugging = false;
 
 	mb_internal_encoding("UTF-8");
 	date_default_timezone_set('UTC');
@@ -132,6 +133,12 @@
 
 	$schema_version = false;
 
+	function _debug_suppress($suppress) {
+		global $suppress_debugging;
+
+		$suppress_debugging = $suppress;
+	}
+
 	/**
 	 * Print a timestamped debug message.
 	 *
@@ -139,8 +146,11 @@
 	 * @return void
 	 */
 	function _debug($msg, $show = true) {
-		if (defined('SUPPRESS_DEBUGGING'))
-			return false;
+		global $suppress_debugging;
+
+		//echo "[$suppress_debugging] $msg $show\n";
+
+		if ($suppress_debugging) return false;
 
 		$ts = strftime("%H:%M:%S", time());
 		if (function_exists('posix_getpid')) {
diff --git a/include/rssfuncs.php b/include/rssfuncs.php
index 7f6417759..c8aa7dc23 100644
--- a/include/rssfuncs.php
+++ b/include/rssfuncs.php
@@ -175,6 +175,7 @@
 				while ($tline = db_fetch_assoc($tmp_result)) {
 					if($debug) _debug(" => " . $tline["last_updated"] . ", " . $tline["id"] . " " . $tline["owner_uid"]);
 					update_rss_feed($tline["id"], true);
+					_debug_suppress(false);
 					++$nf;
 				}
 			}
@@ -194,8 +195,7 @@
 
 		$debug_enabled = defined('DAEMON_EXTENDED_DEBUG') || $_REQUEST['xdebug'];
 
-		if (!$debug_enabled) define('SUPPRESS_DEBUGGING', true);
-
+		_debug_suppress(!$debug_enabled);
 		_debug("start", $debug_enabled);
 
 		$result = db_query("SELECT id,update_interval,auth_login,