[RHCE] autofs question - should automounted directory exist or not?

[Jeremy Portzer]

I assume technical questions are game on this list, as long as the
correspond to potential RHCE topics?  If not, please ignore.

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Has anyone here used or played around with autofs / automountd?

In the RHL 8.0 _Customization Guide_, there's a brief section:
http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/linux/RHL-8.0-Manual/custom-guide/s1-nfs-mount.html

Quoting from the bottom of this page:
"The first field in /etc/auto.misc is the name of the /misc
subdirectory. This directory is created dynamically by automount. It
should not actually exist on the client machine."

But then the very next paragraph says:

"Note

"The directory /misc must exist on the local file system. There should
be no subdirectories in /misc on the local file system. "

So which is correct?  Does the automounted sub-directory, /misc need to
be created or not?  Is this a documentation error or am I missing
something completely here?

Thanks for any thoughts.

Jeremy Portzer