diff --git a/monitor/nut/nut.conf b/monitor/nut/nut.conf
index 72ab3057f..e5b6fa82f 100644
--- a/monitor/nut/nut.conf
+++ b/monitor/nut/nut.conf
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 # This copyright note is auto-generated by ./scripts/Create-CopyPatch.
 #
 # Filename: package/.../nut/nut.conf
-# Copyright (C) 2007 The OpenSDE Project
+# Copyright (C) 2007 - 2012 The OpenSDE Project
 #
 # More information can be found in the files COPYING and README.
 #
@@ -12,6 +12,11 @@
 # GNU General Public License can be found in the file COPYING.
 # --- SDE-COPYRIGHT-NOTE-END ---
 
+if [ $prefix_auto = 1 ]; then
+	# use a dedicated sysconfdir instead of installing into /etc
+	sysconfdir="$sysconfdir/$pkg"
+fi
+
 # we patch drivers/Makefile.am to not install the driver skeleton
 # (see: no_skel.patch)
 hook_add preconf 5 "aclocal -I m4; autoconf; automake -a"