UMASK not having effect on some file creations

Question

I have umask set to 002 in my Linux server and its working fine while I create file using touch. But I still have some files that are created with permission contrary to umask. These problematic files are created as a result of a script that is scheduled via cron; they have -rw-r----- permissions but they should have -rw-rw-r-- according to umask set to 002. Is there any other factor that controls permission other than umask?

The OS is SunOS usdyda01 5.10 Generic_150400-14 sun4v sparc SUNW,SPARC-Enterprise-T5220

Answer 1

The umask set in your session does not affect cron. (In fact, each session could have a different umask.) You would need to set the umask at the beginning of your script executed by cron.