How to start prog at boot.

I'm wondering how I can make a prog autostart on boot.
I've got Linpus and wanted to install gmail-notifier.
Works great, exept I have to go to the terminal and type:
[user@localhost ~]$ cd Downloads/
[user@localhost Downloads]$ cd gmail-notify
[user@localhost gmail-notify]$ ./notifier.py
When I close my terminal my prog stops running.

I found something about making a script in /etc/init.d
But I don't know how to do that.

Thanx

 

You can add a program to autostart by hitting ALT-F2 and entering the command:

xfce4-autostart-editor

When you add this program you'd fill in the command to look like this:

/mnt/home/Downloads/notifier.py

If you launch a program from a terminal, the program will close when you close the terminal that launched it. However if you add "&" to the end of the command line, then the application will go to the background and you can close the terminal and the program will remain running. Like this:

./notifier.py &

Cheers.