# Changing mender.conf file

**URL:** https://hub.mender.io/t/changing-mender-conf-file/2518
**Category:** General Discussions
**Created:** [September 29, 2020, 11:40am UTC](https://hub.mender.io/t/changing-mender-conf-file/2518 "2020-09-29T11:40:19Z")
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### Author: ![SamanRatna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6a8cbe/32.png) [@SamanRatna](https://hub.mender.io/u/SamanRatna)
#### Post date: [September 29, 2020, 11:40am UTC](https://hub.mender.io/t/changing-mender-conf-file/2518/1 "2020-09-29T11:40:19Z")

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I am trying to change timeout values inside mender.conf file at /etc/mender/mender.conf . Even if I change values, the update runs on default values.

Is there anything I need to do prior ?

Thanks in advance.

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### Author: ![drewmoseley](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/hub.mender.io/drewmoseley/32/47_2.png) [@drewmoseley](https://hub.mender.io/u/drewmoseley)
#### Post date: [September 29, 2020, 2:09pm UTC](https://hub.mender.io/t/changing-mender-conf-file/2518/2 "2020-09-29T14:09:40Z")

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Have you restarted the Mender client to read the updated values?

> $ systemctl restart mender-client

Drew

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### Author: ![SamanRatna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6a8cbe/32.png) [@SamanRatna](https://hub.mender.io/u/SamanRatna)
#### Post date: [September 29, 2020, 3:01pm UTC](https://hub.mender.io/t/changing-mender-conf-file/2518/3 "2020-09-29T15:01:37Z")

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Hi @drewmoseley,

Thank you. That solved it. 😃

I am trying in for StateScriptTimeoutSeconds. What is the maximum limit for StateScriptTimeoutSeconds ? I couldn’t find it in documentation.

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### Author: ![mirzak](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/hub.mender.io/mirzak/32/2056_2.png) [@mirzak](https://hub.mender.io/u/mirzak)
#### Post date: [October 6, 2020, 9:25am UTC](https://hub.mender.io/t/changing-mender-conf-file/2518/4 "2020-10-06T09:25:55Z")

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> [@SamanRatna](#):
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> What is the maximum limit for StateScriptTimeoutSeconds ?

We do not enforce an upper limit. The data type holding the value is probably the limiting factor. Probably INT32\_MAX.

Note that it is not recommend to set this to high either. This is a mechanism to detect broken scripts, e.g scripts that do not return and get stuck and while `StateScriptTimeoutSeconds` is consumed the Mender client will be stuck.