[SERVER-29963] Include log rotate scripts into deb and rpm packages - MongoDB Jira

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Spin off from ~~SERVER-5325~~. Simple log rotate example for 3.4+:

/var/log/mongodb/*.log {

  daily

  missingok

  rotate 5

  compress

  dateext

  delaycompress

  sharedscripts

  postrotate

       /usr/bin/kill -SIGUSR1 `/usr/bin/cat /var/run/mongod.pid`

  endscript

  notifempty

The default mongod.conf should also be altered to set log rotate behavior to "reopen" and pidfile set to /var/run/mongod.pid

depends on

SERVER-5325 Rolling Log Files