HOWTO Setup NUT (Network UPS Tools) on Debian

This article was first written in August 2004 for the BeezNest technical
website (http://glasnost.beeznest.org/articles/158).
NUT is the Network UPS Tools. To setup NUT on Debian, you first need to know what kind of UPS you have, and how it is/will be connected to your Debian machine. We will not yet analyse how to do monitoring over the network, but only on the machine physically connected to the UPS, which we suppose has been installed under Debian GNU/Linux (tested on Sarge). First, install the package nut (the