cron expression failing on aws lambda - cron

I want this endpoint to be hit every ten minutes apart from on sunday
I've tried
cron(5,15,25,35,45,55 * * * 1-6 *)
and
cron(0/10 * * * 1-6 *)
cron(5,15,25,35,45,55 * * * ? *) works, but WITH the days specified, either in this format or MON-SAT format, does not work and throws my serverless deploy

every 10 min Mon-Sat
cron(0/10 * ? * MON-SAT *)
reference Link : https://docs.aws.amazon.com/lambda/latest/dg/tutorial-scheduled-events-schedule-expressions.html

This expression will work for you:
cron(5/10 * ? * Mon-Sat *)
The reason for the ? in the Day-of-Month field is because:
You can't specify the Day-of-month and Day-of-week fields in the same cron expression. If you specify a value (or a *) in one of the fields, you must use a ? (question mark) in the other.
In addition to run it "on the fives" use 5/10 because:
The / (forward slash) wildcard specifies increments. In the Minutes field, you could enter 1/10 to specify every tenth minute, starting from the first minute of the hour (for example, the 11th, 21st, and 31st minute, and so on).
References
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudWatch/latest/events/ScheduledEvents.html#CronExpressions

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I thought I would specify that by doing
*/7 * * * *
But that doesn't work, I think it executes every 7th minute. There is no setting for "seconds" in cpanel. There is only "Minute Hour Day Month Weekday".
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This runs every two hours.
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But I need to set q cron every one hour starting from a specific time. E.g let's say starts from 3:30 AM. can this be done?
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You can try this:
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Is `*/1 * * * *` and `* * * * *` equivalent in CRON?

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So all together */1 means exactly the same as *.
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Step values can be used in conjunction with ranges. Following a
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Quartz Cron Expression: Run Job Every 10 minutes starting NOW (immediately)

I am using Quartz Scheduler using Spring. I want to configure the same with following schedule:
Run Job Every 10 minutes starting NOW
I am using following expression for the same.
0 */10 * * * ?
I thought * in the minutes field would make it run the first minute, but it does not do that way. It runs the first 10th minutes from now and then every 10 minutes afterwards.
Can anybody please suggest me the reason for this behavior and the solution to my problem also?
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Please see : http://www.cronmaker.com/
check the minute your at now and add them as a list to your crontrigger. if you start the trigger at minute 12 for example add
0 2,12,22,32,42,52 * * * ?
as your cron expression
Edit:
Another solution would be to define a simpletrigger that repeats every ten minutes
SimpleTrigger trigger = new SimpleTrigger("myTrigger",
null,
new Date(),
null,
SimpleTrigger.REPEAT_INDEFINITELY,
10L * 60L * 1000L);
You can use something like
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That will trigger the job at any minute and 10 minutes after that. I didn't try it but it looks right. :)
*/10 * * * *
Every 10 minutes starting from the moment you create the cron job, wether you prefer (user crontab, /etc/cron.d/, ...).

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