03-14-2012, 06:20 PM
Source code is available from the Google code (link is on MC-Server's main page, https://code.google.com/p/mc-server/source/checkout ). You need an SVN client to download the code. If on Windows, I suggest you use TortoiseSVN as it's the de facto standard as far as GUI SVN clients go. On Linux, you'll need to study some commandline around the svn command 
Despite what the google page says, non-members can check out both from http and from https. You don't need any kind of account to download the source read-only; however, you'll need an account if you ever become an active developer wanting to commit changes to the sources.
As for the large log file, no idea about that. I'm not sure you could type that many console commands that it would fill several GiBs. I remember reading about a *nix issue that would cause an infinite loop when using something like "echo restart | ./MCServer", but I was never able to replicate that behavior.
Despite what the google page says, non-members can check out both from http and from https. You don't need any kind of account to download the source read-only; however, you'll need an account if you ever become an active developer wanting to commit changes to the sources.
As for the large log file, no idea about that. I'm not sure you could type that many console commands that it would fill several GiBs. I remember reading about a *nix issue that would cause an infinite loop when using something like "echo restart | ./MCServer", but I was never able to replicate that behavior.