Can't initiate replica set in Ubuntu

Question

Whenever I type: rs.initiate(), I get the following error message:

{
    \"info2\" : \"no configuration explicitly specified -- making one\",
           


        

Answer 1

Yeah, exactly, or you can change your hostname to something that is already in your /etc/hosts pointing to 127.0.0.1 such as localhost.

With a mac you can do this by typing sudo scutil –-set HostName localhost.