diff --git a/app.py b/app.py
index f4e0635..666b79c 100644
--- a/app.py
+++ b/app.py
@@ -1293,6 +1293,25 @@ def _host_load_mem(remote):
 _MONITOR_HOST_WORKERS = 8
 
 
+# Game users whose ~/.restart-pending flag is set, per host id. The DAILY-RESTART cron sets that
+# flag on the box at 05:00 and its hourly partner restarts once the server empties — a mechanism the
+# panel writes but then cannot see, because the panel's own "restart when empty" is a DB column and
+# nothing connects the two. The banner therefore stayed hidden while a restart really was queued.
+# Display only: the column is never written from this, so the panel's own queue is untouched and
+# nothing can be restarted twice.
+_cron_restart_pending = {}
+
+
+def _host_restart_flags(remote):
+    """The set of game users on `remote` whose ~/.restart-pending flag exists. One cheap ls."""
+    try:
+        out, _, _ = run_command(
+            remote, "ls -1d /home/*/.restart-pending 2>/dev/null || true", timeout=10)
+        return {ln.split("/")[2] for ln in (out or "").splitlines() if ln.startswith("/home/")}
+    except Exception:
+        return set()
+
+
 def _probe_host(remote):
     """Every network probe for one host, gathered off the database.
 
@@ -1307,7 +1326,8 @@ def _probe_host(remote):
         except Exception:
             ports = None
         return remote.id, {"reachable": True, "disk": _host_disk_pct(remote),
-                           "load_mem": _host_load_mem(remote), "ports": ports}
+                           "load_mem": _host_load_mem(remote), "ports": ports,
+                           "restart_flagged": _host_restart_flags(remote)}
     except Exception:
         _log.debug("host probe failed for %s", getattr(remote, "name", "?"), exc_info=True)
         return remote.id, {"reachable": False}
@@ -1376,6 +1396,8 @@ def _monitor_pass():
             if gs.status in ("installing", "configuring"):
                 continue
             up = gs.port in ports
+            # Display-only: does the BOX think a restart is queued for this server?
+            _cron_restart_pending[gs.id] = gs.short_name in (probe.get("restart_flagged") or set())
             prev_up = _monitor_state["servers"].get(gs.id)
             # State is tracked either way — only the ALERT is muted by a tag, so a server that goes
             # down while muted still reports "back online" correctly once it is unmuted.
@@ -3712,7 +3734,8 @@ def _can(perm):
                                can_send_command=can_send_command, can_moderate=can_moderate,
                                can_kick=can_kick, can_ban=can_ban, can_say=can_say,
                                custom_commands=custom_commands,
-                               can_autostart=can_autostart, public_host=public_host)
+                               can_autostart=can_autostart, public_host=public_host,
+                               cron_restart_pending=_cron_restart_pending.get(gs.id, False))
 
     def _perm_for_action(action):
         """Which permission an action requires (core actions have specific perms;
diff --git a/templates/server_detail.html b/templates/server_detail.html
index c0ffe28..6291fbd 100644
--- a/templates/server_detail.html
+++ b/templates/server_detail.html
@@ -24,11 +24,14 @@ <h1 class="page-title mb-0 mt-1">{{ server.name }}</h1>
 
 {% with show_clear_console = True %}{% include "_server_actions.html" %}{% endwith %}
 
-<!-- Pending-action banner: a restart OR stop is queued (mod change, or user "when empty") -->
-<div class="alert alert-warning py-2 px-3 d-flex justify-content-between align-items-center flex-wrap gap-2 {% if not (server.restart_pending or server.stop_pending) %}d-none{% endif %}"
+{# Pending-action banner: a restart OR stop is queued. Three ways that happens — a mod change, the
+   user's "when empty", and the DAILY-RESTART cron, which sets a flag file on the box that the panel
+   used to be blind to. cron_restart_pending is display-only (the monitor reads the flag; nothing
+   writes the column from it), so the two queues stay independent and nothing restarts twice. #}
+<div class="alert alert-warning py-2 px-3 d-flex justify-content-between align-items-center flex-wrap gap-2 {% if not (server.restart_pending or server.stop_pending or cron_restart_pending) %}d-none{% endif %}"
      id="restart-pending-banner" data-action="{{ 'stop' if server.stop_pending else 'restart' }}">
   <span><i class="bi bi-exclamation-triangle-fill"></i>
-    A <span id="rpb-verb">{{ 'stop' if server.stop_pending else 'restart' }}</span> is queued — it'll run automatically once the server is empty, or do it now.</span>
+    A <span id="rpb-verb">{{ 'stop' if server.stop_pending else 'restart' }}</span> is queued{% if cron_restart_pending and not (server.restart_pending or server.stop_pending) %} by the daily-restart schedule{% endif %} — it'll run automatically once the server is empty, or do it now.</span>
   <button class="btn btn-sm btn-warning" data-action="bannerDoNow" data-args='["@self"]'>
     <i class="bi bi-lightning-charge"></i> <span id="rpb-btn">{{ 'Stop' if server.stop_pending else 'Restart' }} now</span>
   </button>
diff --git a/tests/smoke_test.py b/tests/smoke_test.py
index e6b3eae..3f853ba 100644
--- a/tests/smoke_test.py
+++ b/tests/smoke_test.py
@@ -1478,26 +1478,52 @@ def _unreadable(gs):
             # one unreachable host (an SSH connect timeout) held up the checks for all the others.
             import time as _mt
             _sv_probes = (_am._host_reachable, _am._host_disk_pct, _am._host_load_mem,
-                          _am._remote_listening_ports)
+                          _am._remote_listening_ports, _am._host_restart_flags)
             try:
                 _DWELL = 0.05
                 _am._host_reachable = lambda r: (_mt.sleep(_DWELL), True)[1]
                 _am._host_disk_pct = lambda r: (_mt.sleep(_DWELL), 40)[1]
                 _am._host_load_mem = lambda r: (_mt.sleep(_DWELL), (10, 10))[1]
                 _am._remote_listening_ports = lambda r: (_mt.sleep(_DWELL), set())[1]
+                _am._host_restart_flags = lambda r: (_mt.sleep(_DWELL), set())[1]
                 with app.app_context():
                     _nhosts = RemoteServer.query.count()
                 _reset_mon()
                 _t0 = _mt.time(); _am._monitor_pass(); _elapsed = _mt.time() - _t0
                 # Serial would be hosts x 4 probes x dwell; concurrent is ~4 x dwell regardless of
                 # how many hosts there are. Half of serial is a wide margin either way.
-                _serial = _nhosts * 4 * _DWELL
+                _serial = _nhosts * 5 * _DWELL
                 check("monitor: hosts are probed concurrently, so one slow host holds up no others",
                       _nhosts >= 3 and _elapsed < _serial / 2,
                       "%d hosts: %.2fs elapsed vs %.2fs if serial" % (_nhosts, _elapsed, _serial))
             finally:
                 (_am._host_reachable, _am._host_disk_pct, _am._host_load_mem,
-                 _am._remote_listening_ports) = _sv_probes
+                 _am._remote_listening_ports, _am._host_restart_flags) = _sv_probes
+
+            # ── The sweep records which servers the BOX has queued for restart ────────────────
+            # One `ls /home/*/.restart-pending` per host, mapped back to the game user. Without
+            # this the banner test above would pass while nothing ever populated the dict.
+            _sv_rf = _am._host_restart_flags
+            try:
+                with app.app_context():
+                    _mon_user = db.session.get(GameServer, _mon_id).short_name
+                _am._host_restart_flags = lambda r: {_mon_user}
+                _am._cron_restart_pending.clear()
+                _reset_mon()
+                _am._monitor_pass()
+                check("monitor: a server whose box has the restart flag is recorded",
+                      _am._cron_restart_pending.get(_mon_id) is True,
+                      str(dict(list(_am._cron_restart_pending.items())[:3])))
+                _others = [v for k, v in _am._cron_restart_pending.items() if k != _mon_id]
+                check("monitor: and servers without the flag are recorded as not pending",
+                      _others and not any(_others), str(_others[:5]))
+                _am._host_restart_flags = lambda r: set()
+                _am._monitor_pass()
+                check("monitor: clearing the flag on the box clears it here too",
+                      _am._cron_restart_pending.get(_mon_id) is False)
+            finally:
+                _am._host_restart_flags = _sv_rf
+                _am._cron_restart_pending.clear()
 
             # ── A scheduled LinuxGSM update must not read as a crash ───────────────────────────
             # Stock LinuxGSM installs carry their own cron (e.g. "30 4 * * * ./gmodserver
@@ -1861,6 +1887,38 @@ def _act_btns(html):
     finally:
         _am.list_cron_jobs = _sv_lcj
 
+    # ── The pending banner must know about the DAILY-RESTART cron too ─────────────────────────────
+    # Two mechanisms queue a restart-when-empty: the panel's column, and the cron set_daily_restart
+    # writes, which touches ~/.restart-pending on the box and restarts from there. The panel wrote
+    # the second one and then could not see it, so the banner stayed hidden while a restart really
+    # was queued. This is display-only — the column is never written from the flag, so the two
+    # queues stay independent and nothing gets restarted twice.
+    with app.app_context():
+        _g = db.session.get(GameServer, gs_id)
+        _g.restart_pending = _g.stop_pending = False
+        db.session.commit()
+    _am._cron_restart_pending.pop(gs_id, None)
+    def _banner_tag(html):
+        # By id — the first alert-warning on the page may be an unrelated flash message.
+        m = _re_ab.search(r'<div[^>]*id="restart-pending-banner"[^>]*>', html)
+        return m.group(0) if m else ""
+
+    check("pending banner: hidden when neither the panel nor the box has one queued",
+          "d-none" in _banner_tag(c.get("/server/%d" % gs_id).get_data(as_text=True)))
+    _am._cron_restart_pending[gs_id] = True
+    try:
+        _bh = c.get("/server/%d" % gs_id).get_data(as_text=True)
+        _banner = _banner_tag(_bh)
+        check("pending banner: shown when the BOX has one queued, not just the panel",
+              "d-none" not in _banner, _banner[:80])
+        check("pending banner: and it says which schedule queued it",
+              "by the daily-restart schedule" in _bh)
+        with app.app_context():
+            check("pending banner: the column is left alone, so the panel's own queue is untouched",
+                  db.session.get(GameServer, gs_id).restart_pending is False)
+    finally:
+        _am._cron_restart_pending.pop(gs_id, None)
+
     # ── Bearer API tokens: the other way into every route ─────────────────────────────────────────
     # A token authenticates AS its owner and inherits exactly that user's RBAC, and app.py exempts
     # Bearer requests from CSRF — so this is a full authentication path that had no test at all.