You are right, this sounds like a doc bug. Do you mind filing a JIRA ticket (http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KAFKA) so we can keep track of this issue?
On Tue, Jul 21, 2015 at 7:43 PM, yewton <yew...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > The document about zookeeper.connect on Broker Configs says that > "Note that you must create this path yourself prior to starting the broker", > but it seems the broker creates the path automatically on start up > (maybe related issue: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KAFKA-404 ). > > So the document is not just up to date? > > Thanks, > Yuto Sasaki