I doubt, that there is an easy || fast way to output more meaningful
messages: the messages are generated by the compiler (more exact the
preprocessor is inserting them). If I did not miss anything the
messages are assertions. Those are included very easy into your code,
like:
assert( pipapo > 0 );
if this assertion fails (because pipapo is actually <= 0) the C
library will output something like:
assertion ( pipapo > 0 ) failed. Source file 'xyz.c', line number 1234.
If I am remembering correctly this is more or less what the people
around are experiencing on expire failure. BTW I never had such an
assertion failure - perhaps you have to do something illegal to the
news database to get such a message?
Hardy
PS: expire seems to be written in C/C++.
-- Hardy Griech, Kurt-Schumacher-Str. 25/1, D-72762 Reutlingen