An operating system upgrade of debian.eskimo.com from wheezy (7) to jessie (8) is in progress.  I started it last night but as typical for debian major release updates, the script blew up and I have had to restart things several times.  As a result, the system is presently in an inconsistent state and it would be better to use mint.eskimo.com or ubuntu.eskimo.com if you need a debian based shell server while this upgrade is still in process.