# Using mender.conf for setting timeouts

**URL:** <https://hub.mender.io/t/using-mender-conf-for-setting-timeouts/2304>\
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**Created:** [August 11, 2020, 2:56pm UTC](https://hub.mender.io/t/using-mender-conf-for-setting-timeouts/2304 "2020-08-11T14:56:02Z")\
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**Post date:** [August 11, 2020, 2:56pm UTC](https://hub.mender.io/t/using-mender-conf-for-setting-timeouts/2304/1 "2020-08-11T14:56:02Z")

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Hi,

I am trying to set new timeout variables into the mender.conf file here.

{  
“InventoryPollIntervalSeconds”: 5,  
“RetryPollIntervalSeconds”: 30,  
“ServerURL”: “[https://hosted.mender.io/](https://hosted.mender.io/)”,  
“TenantToken”: “My\_token”,  
“UpdatePollIntervalSeconds”: 5  
}

I am trying to add these variables:

“StateScriptRetryIntervalSeconds”: some\_value  
“StateScriptTimeoutSeconds”: some\_value  
“StateScriptRetryTimeoutSeconds”: some\_value

But when I save the values in the mender.conf file, the default values run. I tried with

“StateScriptRetryIntervalSeconds”: 80

But, still the interval is 60 seconds that is set default by mender. What am I missing?