I compiled latest git source on a linux machine using cmake. I can connect. However:
1) No commands are available, not even /help. They just show up as chat text.
2) I spawn inside the ground and have to dig my way out.
3) The roles.txt file doesn't give even the slightest hint to its syntax. Neither does the wiki.
1. Commands were recently taken out as I came to figure out recently as well. My guess is that the devs want it to be more of a plugin than built in. Inside the source you can find the old commands.cpp, but it's file extension now has .unused attached to it.
2. Seems kind of odd, does this always happen or for one map that you had the server generate? If this is reproducible I'm sure the devs would want a thorough bug report.
3. For each role, whether it be admins, ops or member, all you do is just put the name of the user below each subsection that you want them to be a member of.
Formatted like this:
# admins
myusername
# ops
mygoodfriend
# members
randommember1