DOCSP-2519 log rotation (#991)

* DOCSP-2519-log-rotation

* DOCSP-2519-log-rotation

* DOCSP-2519-log-rotation

Co-authored-by: jason-price-mongodb <[email protected]>

Author: jason-price-mongodb

source/tutorial/rotate-log-files.txt

@@ -41,6 +41,17 @@ Finally, you can configure :binary:`~bin.mongod` to send log data to the
 ``syslog`` using the :option:`--syslog <mongod --syslog>` option. In
 this case, you can take advantage of alternate log rotation tools.
 
+To rotate the log files, you must perform one of these steps:
+
+- Send a ``SIGUSR1`` signal to the :binary:`~bin.mongod` or
+  :binary:`~bin.mongos` process.
+
+- Run the MongoDB :dbcommand:`logRotate` command.
+
+- Run the Linux/Unix ``logrotate`` utility.
+
+See the examples later on this page.
+
 .. seealso::
 
    For information on logging, see the