I got the combination Lua with direct access to the core Sqlite database to work. Hurray, maybe I'm not as stupid as A.M II hints... The problem was that Lua did not "like": require "luasql.sqlite" env = luasql.sqlite() con = assert(env:connect("/usr/local/freeswitch/db/core.db")) After changing it to require "luasql.sqlite3" env = luasql.sqlite3() con = assert(env:connect("/usr/local/freeswitch/db/core.db")) And seeing that there was a symlink in one of the right directories called with the name: sqlite3.so, it worked. Changing the core db into a MySQL via ODBC caused some problems even after it seemed to work. For instance, console help caused an error with an error description indicating that a SQL SELECT query including the reserved word key has been fired. It this problem likely to be solved if I used another version of the MySQL? Jon Brüel Consiglia Telecommunications DK-2960 Rungsted Kyst Tel: +45 45 16 1000 Mob: +45 26 15 30 60 CVR: 27047882