A '/usr/bin/squid -k shutdown' returned some errors in my 'squid.conf', which I corrected. Afterwards 'start|restart|stop squid' worked. So it seems that '/usr/bin/squid' causes squid to run even with a faulty 'squid.conf', with warnings, but a 'start squid' does not.
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