In message <3290977F.706@globalnet.co.uk> you wrote:

> [Postgres]
> Apparently postmaster is listening to port '5432'. How do I make it
> listen to the keyboard?

You could try telnetting to it - 

telnet localhost 5432

That'll give you a tty connection to the Postgres listener.  I don't
know anything about Postgres though, and I'd expect that port to be
a program-style interface probably not too friendly to humans ;)