Locate command problems

Using the locate command to search for things showed the command wasn't bahving correctly:
%locate junk
locate: locate database header corrupt, bigram char outside 0, 32-127: -1
So, I after reading some stuff, I decided to delete the locate.database file and rebuild it. Details:
deleted from /var/db/locate.database
and then with:
/etc/periodic/weekly/310.locate
resulted in:
Rebuilding locate database:
sort: fflush failed: standard output: Broken pipe
sort: write error
Any good ideas?

Post Unix and Terminal queries to the Unix forum under OS X Technologies. FWIW, I don't know why you're having the issue (apparently, something's amiss with your find command). Do note that if you use the periodic weekly method that the locate database will not include many excluded areas. If you want to build a complete locate database, use:
*sudo /usr/libexec/locate.updatedb*

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