diff --git a/sbin/e4rat_finalize.sh b/sbin/e4rat_finalize.sh
index 30b64e2..dd2fa5e 100755
--- a/sbin/e4rat_finalize.sh
+++ b/sbin/e4rat_finalize.sh
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
 
 let timeout=0`grep --color=NO '^[ \t]*timeout' /etc/e4rat.conf | head -n1 | sed 's~[^0-9]\+\([0-9]\+\).*~\1~'`
 
+[ 0 -eq $timeout ] && timeout=120
 sleep $timeout
 
 e4rat-collect -k